I have a ES cluster (v6.2.4), each data node having their data locally (in the VMs). In order to take a snapshot/backup of the cluster data, i came across this https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/modules-snapshots.html But, i could not find a way to take backup, when its…

Elasticsearch backup on non-shared filesystem

Christian_Dahlqvist (Christian Dahlqvist) October 3, 2018, 5:30am 4

I can not think of any reliable way to do it at the node level.

There are however options to use other types of shared storage, e.g. S3 or HDFS, if that is easier for you.

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