I installed the elasticsearch operator using the quickstart guide and have a 3 node cluster running. I can't find any documentation on how to schedule regular snapshots of the ES cluster or how to restore from snapshot. Can someone point me to a doc or guide for backup/restore?

https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/cloud-on-k8s/0.9/k8s-snapshot.html

Did this go away in 1.1? I don't see the documentation.

And do you know where there is documentation for setting up a vanilla Kubernetes pvc as the backup volume?

We restructured the docs slightly it is now here: https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/cloud-on-k8s/1.2/k8s-snapshots.html

[image] data_smith: And do you know where there is documentation for setting up a vanilla Kubernetes pvc as the backup volume? I am not sure what you mean by "vanilla Kubernetes pvc". If you are referring to running on vanilla Kubernetes i.e. not on one of the hosted k8s offerings, then you …

Yes a pvc in a vanilla Kubernetes. I'm mounting a pvc for backup and I get errors in the logs: 'elastic operator security index is unavailable short circuiting retrieval of user elastic'. I don't get this error when I don't add the volume and volumeMount for the snapshot. So I was looking to see …

My mistake. I have some other problem unrelated to pvcs. Thanks for responding.

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tew (Tew) August 9, 2019, 6:32am 3

Thank you! Loving the ECK operator so far!

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