Cool. Still not knowing whether the act of registering a snapshot repository pointing to a populated directory might "initialize/wipe" the location, I made a copy before registering again.
After registering the repository, I queried for existing snapshots and all looks well, so it looks like registering is non-destructive. Tony On Friday, February 21, 2014 3:48:51 PM UTC-8, Binh Ly wrote: > > When you originally defined the snapshot, you did something like this (or > similar): > > PUT http://localhost:9200/_snapshot/Snapshots > { > "type": "fs", > "settings": { > "location": "/blah" > } > } > > On the new/empty cluster, this snapshot is not yet registered, so the > first thing you need to do is to run that again: > > PUT http://localhost:9200/_snapshot/Snapshots > { > "type": "fs", > "settings": { > "location": "/blah" > } > } > > Then after that, you should be able to restore to the new/empty cluster > (as long as that location "/blah" is accessible from the new cluster node). > -- 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/6d7dc569-7c04-4068-af81-9f59935ebf8d%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
