Try https://github.com/taskrabbit/elasticsearch-dump. You can save your data (& mappings) to JSON.
On Wednesday, November 19, 2014 5:32:14 PM UTC-8, Ivan Brusic wrote: > > How many shards for each index? I am assuming that each node does not have > all the data. > > If you can stop indexing, you can just rsync the data to a local > directory. Make sure you execute a flush and preferably an optimize in > order to merge the segments on disk. The trick part is the manual combine > you referred to. > > BTW, 3 nodes/2 data centers? Sounds like a recipe for trouble. :) > > Cheers, > > Ivan > > On Wed, Nov 19, 2014 at 7:41 PM, Mathew D <mathew.d...@gmail.com > <javascript:>> wrote: > >> Hi there, >> >> Any suggestions as to how I can create full ES backups without using >> snapshot functionality? >> >> The reason I can't use snapshots is because they require a shared >> directory mounted on all nodes, but my 3-node cluster spans two data >> centres and I am not able to NFS mount over the WAN. I'm also not >> permitted to backup to AWS/S3. >> >> As I have 2 replicas of each index, I'm leaning towards the idea of >> stopping one node and backing up that node's data directory but wondered if >> anyone could suggest a more elegant way. For example, could I snapshot to >> a local directory on each node, then manually combine the contents into a >> single cohesive backup? >> >> Regards, >> Mat >> >> >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "elasticsearch" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to elasticsearc...@googlegroups.com <javascript:>. >> To view this discussion on the web visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/f0b8a931-c423-4a37-a6df-5181bd4db309%40googlegroups.com >> >> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/f0b8a931-c423-4a37-a6df-5181bd4db309%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >> . >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "elasticsearch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to elasticsearch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/cc37b018-ceea-4079-b799-ccd8d61b3a70%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
