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Elasticsearch 8.x Cookbook - Fifth Edition

You're reading from  Elasticsearch 8.x Cookbook - Fifth Edition

Product type Book
Published in May 2022
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781801079815
Pages 750 pages
Edition 5th Edition
Languages
Author (1):
Alberto Paro Alberto Paro
Profile icon Alberto Paro

Table of Contents (20) Chapters

Preface Chapter 1: Getting Started Chapter 2: Managing Mappings Chapter 3: Basic Operations Chapter 4: Exploring Search Capabilities Chapter 5: Text and Numeric Queries Chapter 6: Relationships and Geo Queries Chapter 7: Aggregations Chapter 8: Scripting in Elasticsearch Chapter 9: Managing Clusters Chapter 10: Backups and Restoring Data Chapter 11: User Interfaces Chapter 12: Using the Ingest Module Chapter 13: Java Integration Chapter 14: Scala Integration Chapter 15: Python Integration Chapter 16: Plugin Development Chapter 17: Big Data Integration Chapter 18: X-Pack Other Books You May Enjoy

Reindexing from a remote cluster

The snapshot and restore APIs are very fast and are the preferred way to back up data. However, they do have some limitations:

  • The backup is a safe Lucene index copy, so it depends on the Elasticsearch version that has been used. If you are switching from a version of Elasticsearch that is earlier than version 5.x, then it's not possible to restore the old indices.
  • It's not possible to restore the 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 will need an up-and-running Elasticsearch installation – similar to the one that we described in the Downloading and installing Elasticsearch recipe of Chapter 1, Getting Started.

In order to execute the commands, any HTTP client...

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