December 2017
Intermediate to advanced
434 pages
10h 29m
English
It is important to back up your data in Elasticsearch regularly to restore the data if a catastrophic event occurs or if you want to revert to a last known healthy state. We will look at how to backup and restore using the snapshot/restore APIs of Elasticsearch in the next section. In order to take regular backups and store them in centralized and resilient data storage, we need to set up a snapshot mechanism. When you are running Elasticsearch in EC2, it makes sense to store snapshots in an AWS S3 bucket.
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