# Offline storage to keep data for several months, how? **URL:** \ **Category:** Elasticsearch\ **Created:** [March 6, 2015, 2:31pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/offline-storage-to-keep-data-for-several-months-how/22554 "2015-03-06T14:31:29Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![efontana](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/efontana/32/44901_2.png) [@efontana](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/efontana)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2015, 2:31pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/offline-storage-to-keep-data-for-several-months-how/22554/1 "2015-03-06T14:31:29Z")
I'm still pretty new to this stack, looking for pointers. We have a production 8 node cluster which is keeping 14 days worth of indices open. Keeping open more indices seems to require more memory than we have available, we use the elasticsearch-curator script to close indices older than 14 days. People are looking to be able to search (via Kibana) data from several months back, I've read about snapshots and was thinking I'd like to start moving snapshots to Amazon/S3 storage and then spin up a Kibana/Elasticsearch pointing to the data living there. Is this a good methodology? What exactly is the procedure for doing this? Can Elasticsearch read snapshots directly? Thanks. Eric -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "elasticsearch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [elasticsearch+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com](mailto:elasticsearch+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com). To view this discussion on the web visit [https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/304db535-782e-4b5c-9e30-4b96a99abc21%40googlegroups.com](https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/304db535-782e-4b5c-9e30-4b96a99abc21%40googlegroups.com). For more options, visit [https://groups.google.com/d/optout](https://groups.google.com/d/optout). ---
**Author:** ![warkolm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/warkolm/32/39224_2.png) [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2015, 9:16pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/offline-storage-to-keep-data-for-several-months-how/22554/2 "2015-03-06T21:16:26Z")
You cannot read data that is stored in a snapshot. If you want the data available then you will need another node(s), you can get something smaller and with a lot of disk and move the indices there and then close them, or you will have to snapshot and then restore when required. On 7 March 2015 at 01:31, Eric Fontana [eric@fontanas.net](mailto:eric@fontanas.net) wrote: > I'm still pretty new to this stack, looking for pointers. We have a > production 8 node cluster which is keeping 14 days worth of indices open. > Keeping open more indices seems to require more memory than we have > available, we use the elasticsearch-curator script to close indices > older than 14 days. > > People are looking to be able to search (via Kibana) data from several > months back, I've read about snapshots and was thinking > I'd like to start moving snapshots to Amazon/S3 storage and then spin up a > Kibana/Elasticsearch pointing to the data living there. > Is this a good methodology? What exactly is the procedure for doing this? > Can Elasticsearch read snapshots directly? > > Thanks. > Eric > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "elasticsearch" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [elasticsearch+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com](mailto:elasticsearch+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com). > To view this discussion on the web visit > [https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/304db535-782e-4b5c-9e30-4b96a99abc21%40googlegroups.com](https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/304db535-782e-4b5c-9e30-4b96a99abc21%40googlegroups.com) > [https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/304db535-782e-4b5c-9e30-4b96a99abc21%40googlegroups.com?utm\_medium=email&utm\_source=footer](https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/304db535-782e-4b5c-9e30-4b96a99abc21%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer) > . > For more options, visit [https://groups.google.com/d/optout](https://groups.google.com/d/optout). -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "elasticsearch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [elasticsearch+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com](mailto:elasticsearch+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com). To view this discussion on the web visit [https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/CAEYi1X98kDrdyBEiCm71mou23EYzAw58VRJ\_mMgpgxRG%2B18K\_A%40mail.gmail.com](https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/CAEYi1X98kDrdyBEiCm71mou23EYzAw58VRJ_mMgpgxRG%2B18K_A%40mail.gmail.com). For more options, visit [https://groups.google.com/d/optout](https://groups.google.com/d/optout). ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2017, 12:27am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/offline-storage-to-keep-data-for-several-months-how/22554/3 "2017-07-06T00:27:56Z")