# ElasticSearch backup techniques and strategies? **URL:** \ **Category:** Elasticsearch\ **Created:** [September 9, 2016, 6:46pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-backup-techniques-and-strategies/60192 "2016-09-09T18:46:43Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![msqsf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ebca7d/32.png) [@msqsf](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/msqsf)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2016, 6:46pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-backup-techniques-and-strategies/60192/1 "2016-09-09T18:46:43Z")
We are on ElasticSearch 1.7.4. Our index is 110GB in size and it is NOT time-based data. So, there is a process which indexes data all the time, 24x7. Apart from being document store, we execute rather simple queries and gets. 8 data nodes, 3 clients and 3 masters. Data nodes have locally attached SSDs. We create snapshots on nightly basis. However, I tried restoring from snapshot on another cluster and it takes 4 hours to restore. My thinking about backups is that we should be able to recover under 5 minutes. Any strategies to be able to restore in reasonable amount of time? What other tools/techniques people are using beyond standard snapshot/restore which seems like usable for restoring time-based data. ---
**Author:** ![mikemccand](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f04885/32.png) [@mikemccand](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/mikemccand)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2016, 7:11pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-backup-techniques-and-strategies/60192/2 "2016-09-09T19:11:29Z")
Snapshot/restore is the right way to backup your indices, timestamp'd data or not. 4 hours seems like a long time to restore 110 GB to a new cluster, assuming dedicated gigabit ethernet writing to SSDs. Are your restores throttled? I think (not sure) that by default in 1.x ES throttles restores to 40 MB/sec (`max_restore_bytes_per_sec`). ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2017, 10:21pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-backup-techniques-and-strategies/60192/3 "2017-07-05T22:21:26Z")