Hello, I have a size question concerning the Elasticsearch [Snapshot/Restore] API capabilities Let’s, say I am only backing up one index. An example call to the snapshot API is shown below for an index called myindex. response = requests.put("http://localhost:9200/_snapshot/my_backup/snapshot…

Elasticsearch Snapshot repository size estimates

elasticforme (Sachin) September 10, 2019, 8:10pm 4

I have 15 index and I do daily backup. and size is pretty much same as index. I do not do compression.

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