My case wanted to backup only one node of a cluster, I know it is good practice to backup the whole cluster, but my ELK infrastructure do not have a shared file system, if there is no other choice, of course I will create the shared file system, but I just wonder why I can't put my backup on local d…

Why snapshot API requires shared file system?

warkolm (Mark Walkom) July 29, 2019, 7:59am 4

Yep, only for a one node cluster though.

It's not documented as we recommend clusters being 3 or more nodes.

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Why snapshot API requires shared file system?

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