ElasticSearch migration and backup

Elastic Stack Elasticsearch
1

Can I clone a copy of my version of elasticsearch with the addons (e.g. Marvel) and deploy it to anothe VM?

My future plan is:

  1. Moving the elastic search to new infrastructure
  2. Using a new copy, try updating to 6.0
  3. Using a new copy, see if I can move from marvel to Xpack

hope someone can help

2

Can I clone a copy of my version of elasticsearch with the addons (e.g. Marvel) and deploy it to anothe VM?

Yes.

3

How would I go about doing this?

Would I copy all the files in the current elastic folder?

4

Yes.