Hi, I’m struggling to repetitively backup and restore efficiently indices between two independent ES clusters as this is causing a lot of shards rebalancing. The setup is as follows: ES 8.19 cluster composed of 11 nodes located in DC1 up to date Minio cluster located in DC1 ES 8.19 cluster compo…

[image] ch4zzych4zz: If i don’t, it seems i can never get something stable as shards can’t move fast enough to catch up Almost certainly the fix for this is to tune threshold to be higher. Going one-by-one through indices makes life much harder for the balancer: each restore moves the goalpo…

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linkerc March 5, 2026, 10:42pm 2

Not sure if it’s related. But ES 8.x seems to have rebalancing algo issue.

Tweaking the parameters discussed in the link helped.

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Lots of shards relocating post restore

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