Managing repositories

Elasticsearch provides a built-in system to rapidly back up and restore your data. When working with live data, keeping a backup is complex, due to the large number of concurrency problems.

An Elasticsearch snapshot allows you to create snapshots of individual indices (or aliases), or an entire cluster, in a remote repository.

Before starting to execute a snapshot, a repository must be created – this is where your backups or snapshots will be stored.

Getting ready

You will need an up-and-running Elasticsearch installation – similar to the one that we described in the Downloading and installing Elasticsearch recipe in Chapter 1, Getting Started.

In order to execute the commands...