# I am confused on backup and restore process, can someone please help?

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/i-am-confused-on-backup-and-restore-process-can-someone-please-help/289729>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Tags:** snapshot-and-restore\
**Created:** [November 20, 2021, 3:50am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/i-am-confused-on-backup-and-restore-process-can-someone-please-help/289729 "2021-11-20T03:50:44Z")\
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**Author:** ![Blason](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/blason/32/42284_2.png) [@Blason](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Blason)\
**Post date:** [November 20, 2021, 3:50am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/i-am-confused-on-backup-and-restore-process-can-someone-please-help/289729/1 "2021-11-20T03:50:44Z")

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Hi Team,

I have single node elastic cluster and my indices are getting created everyday. I do close them manually every after 120 days. So once index is closed would it be possible to take a a backup of those? Or is there any way where I could dump the indices in any other format like json or in file and store it somewhere so that disk space can be freed?

Also what if later I need to restore the that json file what is best method?

Thanks  
Blason R

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**Author:** ![liujiacheng](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/liujiacheng/32/89148_2.png) [@liujiacheng](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/liujiacheng)\
**Post date:** [November 20, 2021, 4:03am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/i-am-confused-on-backup-and-restore-process-can-someone-please-help/289729/2 "2021-11-20T04:03:53Z")

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it is useful to use snapshot and restore feature to backup your data to HDFS or NAS etc.  
Together with Index Life Cycle Management(ILM) would make this automatically.

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**Author:** ![dadoonet](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/dadoonet/32/137187_2.png) [@dadoonet](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dadoonet)\
**Post date:** [November 20, 2021, 4:05am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/i-am-confused-on-backup-and-restore-process-can-someone-please-help/289729/3 "2021-11-20T04:05:14Z")

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You should look at index lifecycle management and snapshot lifecycle management.

See

> **[ILM: Manage the index lifecycle | Elasticsearch Guide \[7.15\] | Elastic](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/index-lifecycle-management.html)**

And

> **[Tutorial: Automate backups with SLM | Elasticsearch Guide \[7.15\] | Elastic](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/getting-started-snapshot-lifecycle-management.html)**

And if you have a commercial license, you can even search in the snapshots without needing to restore them...

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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:** [December 18, 2021, 4:05am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/i-am-confused-on-backup-and-restore-process-can-someone-please-help/289729/4 "2021-12-18T04:05:36Z")

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