Note, there is a valuable snapshot/restore facility coming in ES 1.0.0, with incremental snapshots.
http://www.elasticsearch.org/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/master/modules-snapshots.html Jörg On Thu, Jan 16, 2014 at 3:37 PM, Craig Lebowitz <[email protected]>wrote: > I was talking about using ES as a system of record with my friendly IT > director today. We were brainstorming about how 'backup" would work. > > The lucene index is immutable, so we can think about ES data as a > transaction log. We can recreate from _source at a given time with a > scan/scroll archive of docs at an interval, e.g 1h. This is exactly the > same as backing up db transaction logs. > > -- > 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 [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/efa02928-b2f6-4c0e-a5ce-faf212c3e638%40googlegroups.com > . > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > -- 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 [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/CAKdsXoFO8GnHowQ5-p-yHCY8ytTkYXitXOgq%3DKu6gOohVcFGgg%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
