It won't work, the snapshot is run against any node that has shards of the index and doesn't funnel data back to the node you ran the command on.
On 6 January 2015 at 02:40, <bitsofinf...@gmail.com> wrote: > I have a cluster (1.3.2) of 10 data nodes and 5 master nodes. > > I want to take a snapshot of one index. > > I'd like to configure a new "fs" snapshot "mybackupdir" where the > "location" is ONLY accessible from the node (master node) I am issuing the > snapshot creation PUT against. > > Next, if I issue a snapshot PUT for "mybackupdir/backup1" against the > master node where that location is indeed accessible, will this work? Does > the node that gets the snapshot request pull all the shard data from the > data nodes over to itself and write them to the snapshot dir on disk? Or > does each data-node responsible for each shard attempt to write to that > same location? (thereby requiring that the snapshot "location" be > accessible by all 15 nodes...) > > I ask this because I have a cluster that spans two data-centers and they > don't all have access to a globally available NFS share where I could have > a common mount path for the snapshots root > > thanks > > -- > 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/1b2274d3-304d-4470-8cda-f9462c831aad%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/1b2274d3-304d-4470-8cda-f9462c831aad%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/CAEYi1X8h2LV0OSWmEwYZ_SAF7t41k4G00_p6_9XVw3SVLk5n_w%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
