# How to take the backup of 3months data of elasticsearch? **URL:** \ **Category:** Elasticsearch\ **Created:** [July 5, 2023, 10:33am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-take-the-backup-of-3months-data-of-elasticsearch/337653 "2023-07-05T10:33:27Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![merson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/4af34b/32.png) [@merson](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/merson)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2023, 10:33am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-take-the-backup-of-3months-data-of-elasticsearch/337653/1 "2023-07-05T10:33:27Z")
In elasticsearch, it is runned three months and the size of elk is 40gb then I want to backup the elasticsearch datas. so what to do the backup of elasticsearch for 3months without using snapshot and restore. ---
**Author:** ![Christian\_Dahlqvist](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/christian_dahlqvist/32/4617_2.png) [@Christian\_Dahlqvist](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Christian_Dahlqvist)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2023, 10:58am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-take-the-backup-of-3months-data-of-elasticsearch/337653/2 "2023-07-05T10:58:13Z")
The snapshot and restore API is the only supported way to back up Elasticsearch. ---
**Author:** ![Christian\_Dahlqvist](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/christian_dahlqvist/32/4617_2.png) [@Christian\_Dahlqvist](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Christian_Dahlqvist)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2023, 10:49am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-take-the-backup-of-3months-data-of-elasticsearch/337653/4 "2023-07-07T10:49:43Z")
I am afraid I do not understand what you mean. Could you please elaborate? ---
**Author:** ![merson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/4af34b/32.png) [@merson](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/merson)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2023, 10:55am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-take-the-backup-of-3months-data-of-elasticsearch/337653/5 "2023-07-07T10:55:17Z")
Sorry, Once I backup the elasticsearch indices then how to run the another elasticsearch server. ---
**Author:** ![Christian\_Dahlqvist](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/christian_dahlqvist/32/4617_2.png) [@Christian\_Dahlqvist](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Christian_Dahlqvist)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2023, 11:09am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-take-the-backup-of-3months-data-of-elasticsearch/337653/6 "2023-07-07T11:09:18Z")
Do you want to restore the snapshot into a different cluster? ---
**Author:** ![merson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/4af34b/32.png) [@merson](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/merson)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2023, 12:18pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-take-the-backup-of-3months-data-of-elasticsearch/337653/7 "2023-07-07T12:18:30Z")
Yeah, correct. then how to check the restore backup file ---
**Author:** ![leandrojmp](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/leandrojmp/32/107231_2.png) [@leandrojmp](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/leandrojmp)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2023, 12:58pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-take-the-backup-of-3months-data-of-elasticsearch/337653/8 "2023-07-07T12:58:02Z")
> [@merson](#): > > Yeah, correct. then how to check the restore backup file How will you create the backup file? The only supported way to backup elasticsearch data is using the Snapshot and Restore API. ---
**Author:** ![merson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/4af34b/32.png) [@merson](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/merson)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2023, 8:44am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-take-the-backup-of-3months-data-of-elasticsearch/337653/9 "2023-07-10T08:44:42Z")
I copied the indices which inside the data directory in the elasticsearch ---
**Author:** ![Christian\_Dahlqvist](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/christian_dahlqvist/32/4617_2.png) [@Christian\_Dahlqvist](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Christian_Dahlqvist)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2023, 9:00am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-take-the-backup-of-3months-data-of-elasticsearch/337653/10 "2023-07-10T09:00:01Z")
That is not a supported backup mechanism and will not work. You need to use the snapshot API. ---
**Author:** ![merson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/4af34b/32.png) [@merson](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/merson)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2023, 9:15am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-take-the-backup-of-3months-data-of-elasticsearch/337653/11 "2023-07-10T09:15:08Z")
thank for your response, But I used to snapshot and restore in Kibana then how to use this backup and restore to another elasticsearch server. ---
**Author:** ![Christian\_Dahlqvist](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/christian_dahlqvist/32/4617_2.png) [@Christian\_Dahlqvist](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Christian_Dahlqvist)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2023, 9:28am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-take-the-backup-of-3months-data-of-elasticsearch/337653/12 "2023-07-10T09:28:41Z")
If you create a snapshot in cluster A, you can then register that snapshot repo as read-only in cluster B and restore from it, assuming cluster B run the same or newer version of Elasticsearch. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2023, 9:29am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-take-the-backup-of-3months-data-of-elasticsearch/337653/13 "2023-08-07T09:29:29Z")
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