You cannot read data that is stored in a snapshot. If you want the data available then you will need another node(s), you can get something smaller and with a lot of disk and move the indices there and then close them, or you will have to snapshot and then restore when required.
On 7 March 2015 at 01:31, Eric Fontana <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm still pretty new to this stack, looking for pointers. We have a > production 8 node cluster which is keeping 14 days worth of indices open. > Keeping open more indices seems to require more memory than we have > available, we use the elasticsearch-curator script to close indices > older than 14 days. > > People are looking to be able to search (via Kibana) data from several > months back, I've read about snapshots and was thinking > I'd like to start moving snapshots to Amazon/S3 storage and then spin up a > Kibana/Elasticsearch pointing to the data living there. > Is this a good methodology? What exactly is the procedure for doing this? > Can Elasticsearch read snapshots directly? > > Thanks. > Eric > > -- > 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/304db535-782e-4b5c-9e30-4b96a99abc21%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/304db535-782e-4b5c-9e30-4b96a99abc21%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 [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/CAEYi1X98kDrdyBEiCm71mou23EYzAw58VRJ_mMgpgxRG%2B18K_A%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
