# ES-Backup -Restore

**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/es-backup-restore/3618
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [December 2, 2010, 9:01am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/es-backup-restore/3618 "2010-12-02T09:01:04Z")
**Posts on this page:** 2
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### Author: ![senthil\_prabhu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9e8a1a/32.png) [@senthil\_prabhu](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/senthil_prabhu)
#### Post date: [December 2, 2010, 9:01am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/es-backup-restore/3618/1 "2010-12-02T09:01:04Z")

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Hi,  
i have two questions.

```
       1.How to use (Close/Open) API in ES.

               i have executed below queries.
                     curl -XPOST 'http://localserver:9200/db1/

```

\_close'

```
                                   AND

```

curl -XPOST '[http://localserver:9200/db1/\_close](http://localserver:9200/db1/_close)'

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### Author: ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 6, 2017, 4:15am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/es-backup-restore/3618/2 "2017-07-06T04:15:52Z")

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