Improve Snapshot/Backup capabilities for Air Gapped deployments via direct downloads or allowing individuals to push snapshots to repositories such as GitLab, Nexus or Artifactory

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The below image shows the docs with the current snapshot repository options.
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For an environment that is air gapped, there are not many options available as far as registries to backup the elastic data.

I propose that allowing direct downloading of the data onto a system that could handle it OR allowing admins to push the download to a url that would accept the input it would be a great addition.

The shared file system repository does not work well for me as this is an ECK stack so there is no guarantee that the data will exist on a node that contains the mounted folder that would be used for backup.

I will grant that deploying MinIO to emulate an S3 bucket is an option, but I would rather not have to support another tool just to do Elastic backups.

I believe that additional options for snapshot repositories would be well appreciated!

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Hi @sheldon.mcclung,
That makes sense. I think you'll get a better response by opening up a feature request at the elasticsearch github repo.

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Absolutely! I just wanted to make sure this made sense to others before I opened up a feature request. Thanks for reviewing the topic!

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Closing the loop, the issue @sheldon.mcclung opened is here:

I don't think it really does make sense and described my reasoning in a reply to the issue. But maybe I'm missing some context?

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I also moved this thread from the Kibana forum to the Elasticsearch one, I don't think it has anything to do with Kibana.

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