unable to backup elastic search data? - elasticsearch

Question

Hi I am having an elastic search (version 6.6.0) running on a machine . It has some indexes .
curl -X GET "10.10.9.1:9200/_cat/indices/mep-reports*?v&s=index&pretty"
health status index uuid pri rep docs.count docs.deleted store.size pri.store.size
yellow open mep-reports-2019.09.11 l6iFm9fSTp6Q07Qa8BsB-w 1 1 149002 1065 13.6mb 13.6mb
yellow open mep-reports-2019.09.13 lX3twLgnThKUcOoF3B1vbw 1 1 80079 3870 10.1mb 10.1mb
yellow open mep-reports-2019.09.18 NzHFBXIASIifRpmlrWQmmg 1 1 283066 164 25.9mb 25.9mb
yellow open mep-reports-2019.09.20 UB3uCEouSAOAsy96AVz__g 1 1 22002 2 1.8mb 1.8mb
yellow open mep-reports-2019.09.23 VXI7K7SFS-Ol_FoHinuY3A 1 1 269836 2632 19.8mb 19.8mb
yellow open mep-reports-2019.09.25 yd6PUSA2Snug-1BAUZICzw 1 1 200001 1972 13.5mb 13.5mb
yellow open mep-reports-2019.10.01 ji0BqsTQRmm-rIKCd2pg_Q 1 1 5000 790 467kb 467kb
yellow open mep-reports-2019.10.10 rt3kb2VFTH6XLiqrIvpEow 1 1 5000 790 450.6kb 450.6kb
yellow open mep-reports-2019.10.17 ws3zILaySwu69U16dKSQlw 1 1 27 9 24.4kb 24.4kb
yellow open mep-reports-2019.10.24 iKc8ruqWTBCsYz83k6NpHg 1 1 2500 540 276.8kb 276.8kb
close mep-reports-2019.10.30 Qrq98yUeS_yvCwzDoQHb3A
yellow open mep-reports-2020.02.10 upBGvHxnTdaxHP52N8fEPg 1 1 56000 3260 5.3mb 5.3mb
yellow open mep-reports-2020.02.11 GfTOrlHBSJKKToHh3u4jnQ 1 1 500 0 43.4kb 43.4kb
I would like to take a data backup and populate that in my local elastic search instance. for that i have tried the following
curl -X PUT "10.10.9.1:9200/_snapshot/my_backup?pretty" -H 'Content-Type: application/json' -d'
{
"type": "fs",
"settings": {
"location": "/tmp/es-backup"
}
}'
it then returns
{
"acknowledged" : true
}
how ever when i tries to list the back up folder it is empty .
ls -ltra /tmp/es-backup
total 4
drwxrwxrwt 1 root root 4096 Feb 12 11:11 ..
drwxrwxr-x 2 omn omn 6 Feb 12 11:46 .
really appreciate any help
thank you

Answer 1

Try to use elasticdump to transfer data from one elastic to another.
You can also output your data into a .json file.
A working example:
Export your indices (data) from a remote elastic server to a .json file.
elasticdump --input=http://10.10.9.1:9200 --output=data.json --type=data
Import data.json (located in your local machine) to your local elastic server.
elasticdump --input=data.json --output=http://localhost:9200 --type=data
Try it.
Hope this helps