# Restore multiple months of data

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/restore-multiple-months-of-data/114286>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [January 5, 2018, 1:38pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/restore-multiple-months-of-data/114286 "2018-01-05T13:38:40Z")\
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**Author:** ![eperry](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/eperry/32/551_2.png) [@eperry](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/eperry)\
**Post date:** [January 5, 2018, 1:38pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/restore-multiple-months-of-data/114286/1 "2018-01-05T13:38:40Z")

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Hi, I have been requested to restore multiple months of data for people search historical log files.

I have been backing up my elasticsearch indexes for +1 year to S3 via the backup/restore API in Elastic

I create an index every day which is ~160GB each day. with 5 shards

So If I wanted to restore 30 days - that would be ~6TB of data per month and 150 non-replicated shards

any advice before I create AWS servers to handle this short time need? My thoughts are to do the following

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  1. can't go with Elastic Cloud as purchasing takes a while in my company.

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  1. AWS elasticsearch is limited to 30gb which means I would have spawn up 5 instances for each day

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  1. Since my install is all ansible'ized I was going to build my own AWS EC2 cluster ~10 Servers/nodes per month with ~600gb storage and select a maybe a medium size instance, and then start restoring and adding servers as needed

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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:** [January 5, 2018, 1:53pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/restore-multiple-months-of-data/114286/2 "2018-01-05T13:53:33Z")

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> can't go with Elastic Cloud as purchasing takes a while in my company.

Did you see [AWS Marketplace: Elastic Cloud (Elasticsearch Service)](https://aws.amazon.com/marketplace/pp/B01N6YCISK) ?  
You can subscribe to elastic cloud using your AWS account.

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**Author:** ![eperry](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/eperry/32/551_2.png) [@eperry](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/eperry)\
**Post date:** [January 5, 2018, 1:57pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/restore-multiple-months-of-data/114286/3 "2018-01-05T13:57:09Z")

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I did not know Elastic Cloud could do this, that is now an option 🙂 I will review that.

see always good to ask 🙂

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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:** [February 2, 2018, 1:57pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/restore-multiple-months-of-data/114286/4 "2018-02-02T13:57:19Z")

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Closed on February 2, 2018, 1:57pm UTC

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