Snapshotting and Restoring Data in Elasticsearch 7.13

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Snapshotting and Restoring Data in Elasticsearch 7.13

As with any data storage technology, backing up and restoring data is critical to ensuring data availability. Elasticsearch is highly fault tolerant and redundant but accidents can still happen. In this hands-on lab, you will get to use the snapshot and restore APIs to back up and restore Elasticsearch data.

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Lab Info

Level

Advanced

Last updated

Sep 22, 2025

Duration

2h 0m

Challenge

Create the accounts Snapshot Repository

From the Kibana console, create a new filesystem-type snapshot repository called accounts for the filesystem location /mnt/backups/accounts.
Challenge

Create the accounts_test_backup Snapshot of the accounts Index

From the Kibana console, create the accounts_test_backup snapshot of the accounts index including the global state.
Challenge

Restore the accounts Index from the accounts_test_backup Snapshot

From the Kibana console, restore the accounts index from the accounts_test_backup snapshot as the index accounts_test_restore.
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Mount the accounts Index from the accounts_test_backup Snapshot

From the Kibana console, mount the accounts index from the accounts_test_backup snapshot as the index accounts_text_backup so that it becomes a searchable snapshot.

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