Snapshot selected indices doesn't work

Elastic Stack Elasticsearch
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I'm running Elasticsearch on aws ec2, self-hosting, and snapshot to s3. Snapshot works fine except that it always copy ALL indices. Here're commands I used:
(1) curl -XPUT localhost:9200/_snapshot/mybackup -H 'Content-Type: application/json' -d
'{"indices":"index1,index2","type":"s3","settings":{"bucket":"mybucket","base_path":"path1/mysnapshot","region":"us-east-1"}}'
(2) curl -XPUT localhost:9200/_snapshot/mybackup/mysnapshot

I also tried {"indices":["index1","index2"], ...}, that didn't help -- still ALL indices get copied to s3.

Thanks for any help.

2

You need to specify the indices you want to snapshot in the create-snapshot request. See these docs for more information.

3

Thanks for the response. Finally got it to work with this sequence:
(1) curl -XPUT localhost:9200/_snapshot/mybackup -H 'Content-Type: application/json' -d
'{"indices":"index1,index2","type":"s3","settings":{"bucket":"mybucket","base_path":"path1/mysnapshot","region":"us-east-1"}}'
(2) curl -XPUT localhost:9200/_snapshot/mybackup/snapshot1 -H 'Content-Type: application/json' -d
'{"indices":"index1,index2","type":"s3","settings":{"bucket":"mybucket","base_path":"path1/mysnapshot","region":"us-east-1"}}'

Hope it'd be simplified in future.
Thanks.

4

It's simpler than that already today. The first API call doesn't need indices and the second doesn't need settings or type.