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Elasticsearch 5.x Cookbook - Third Edition

You're reading from  Elasticsearch 5.x Cookbook - Third Edition

Product type Book
Published in Feb 2017
Publisher
ISBN-13 9781786465580
Pages 696 pages
Edition 3rd Edition
Languages
Author (1):
Alberto Paro Alberto Paro
Profile icon Alberto Paro

Table of Contents (25) Chapters

Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Dedication
Preface
1. Getting Started 2. Downloading and Setup 3. Managing Mappings 4. Basic Operations 5. Search 6. Text and Numeric Queries 7. Relationships and Geo Queries 8. Aggregations 9. Scripting 10. Managing Clusters and Nodes 11. Backup and Restore 12. User Interfaces 13. Ingest 14. Java Integration 15. Scala Integration 16. Python Integration 17. Plugin Development 18. Big Data Integration

Reindexing from a remote cluster


The snapshot and restore APIs are very fast and the preferred way to back up data, but they have some limitations, such as:

  • The backup is a safe Lucene index copy, so it depends on the Elasticsearch version used. If you are switching from a version of Elastisearch that is prior to version 5.x, it's not possible to restore old indices.

  • It's not possible to restore backups of a newer Elasticsearch version in an older version. The restore is only forward-compatible.

  • It's not possible to restore partial data from a backup.

To be able to copy data in this scenario, the solution is to use the reindex API using a remote server.

Getting ready

You need an up-and-running Elasticsearch installation as we described in the Downloading and installing Elasticsearch recipe in Chapter 2, Downloading and Setup.

To execute curl via command line, you need to install curl for your operative system.

How to do it...

To copy an index from a remote server, we need to execute the following...

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