I have never used plugins, but there is also Jorg's tool: https://github.com/jprante/elasticsearch-knapsack
-- Ivan On Wed, Nov 19, 2014 at 11:27 PM, Mathew D <mathew.degerh...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Ivan, > > Thanks for the quick response. We've got 5 shards per index, so with 2 > replicas each node should in theory have a full set of data. I was hoping > that taking the node out of service by stopping it would avoid disruption > as a result of pausing indexing, but I couldn't find any documentation to > confirm if such an operation would leave the data files in a consistent > state that could reliably be used for restore. > > Evan's suggestion of elasticdump looks like the closest to what I'm after, > although unfortunately I don't have node.js/npm installed (and being an > enterprise could be tricky to get installed). > > NB I hear your concerns re cluster design. Incorporating the remote node > was chosen to minimise data loss following a data centre failure, however > because of the risk of split brain, the node actually functions more of a > warm DR than any sort of HA... > > Regards, > Mat > > > > On Thursday, November 20, 2014 2:32:14 PM UTC+13, 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> 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. >>> 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/7615a20f-7c90-43e4-b22b-052686cf543b%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/7615a20f-7c90-43e4-b22b-052686cf543b%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/CALY%3DcQAfzN%2BbpvL94TbYMHNr0L4x%2BjEA0D6NrM_Hyj8NjUEHmA%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
