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[vasudevan]

I have created a snapshot on my single node ELK server and will be able to restore from that snapshot taken. But I can't see any file/content under my backup directory. Below is the command and it's output FYR,

I have created folder "elkbackup" in the root
In elasticsearch.yml :
path.repo: ["~/elkbackup"]

PUT _snapshot/mybackup/one?wait_for_completion=true: SUCCEESS

GET _snapshot/mybackup/_all : SUCCEESS
{
"snapshots": [
{
"snapshot": "one",
"uuid": "lfWFZk39QIS4658dFKnGvg",
"version_id": 6020499,
"version": "6.2.4",
"indices": [
"metricbeat-6.2.4-2019.02.28",
"metricbeat-6.2.4-2019.02.26",
"tfslog-2019.02.25",
"metricbeat-6.2.4-2019.02.25",
".kibana"
],
"include_global_state": true,
"state": "SUCCESS",
"start_time": "2019-02-28T12:01:32.350Z",
"start_time_in_millis": 1551355292350,
"end_time": "2019-02-28T12:01:45.766Z",
"end_time_in_millis": 1551355305766,
"duration_in_millis": 13416,
"failures": ,
"shards": {
"total": 9,
"failed": 0,
"successful": 9
}
}
]
}

GET /_cat/repositories?v : SUCCEESS
id type
mybackup fs

Then I can restore as well:
POST _snapshot/mybackup/one/_restore: SUCCEESS
{
"indices": "metricbeat-6.2.4-2019.02.26",
"ignore_unavailable": "true",
"include_global_state": false
}

But no data under elkbackup folder: Failed
I am expecting content under elkbackup/mybackup/one/** but nothing inside this folder. But restore is success I can access index and all. Can you help me where exactly the content gets stored

[dadoonet (David Pilato)]

Can you from the user who is running elasticsearch process, run:

ls ~/elkbackup

[vasudevan]

Thanks for the reply. My actual issue is that, I am running ELK as docker container so the above mentioned folder is created inside docker container, So I am mounting that container volume with host volume to see it's contents.

[dadoonet (David Pilato)]

May be you did not persist the volume in docker? So that's may be more a Docker question than elasticsearch one?

[vasudevan]

Yes. Also with above mentioned approach my issue solved. Thanks for your inputs here