Hi Roberto,

the only way to get consistent backups of your indices (without shutting 
down the whole ES cluster) is using the ES snapshot/restore 
API: 
https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/2.4/modules-snapshots.html

Cheers,
Jochen

On Monday, 31 October 2016 14:37:29 UTC+1, Roberto Carna wrote:
>
> People, I have a Graylog 2.1.1 server. 
>
> I have several active indices and several closed indices under 
> /var/lib/elasticsearch/graylog/nodes/0/indices/. 
>
> Is it possible to backup the closed indices to a remote file system 
> (using rsync, ftp or whatever tool), then delete the local closed 
> indices, and maybe in the future restore the closed indices from the 
> remote file system to the same directory 
> /var/lib/elasticsearch/graylog/nodes/0/indices/ in order to open them 
> again from Graylog at any time and see them in the web interface??? 
>
> Because the Elasticsearch backup strategy is a bit complicated to me... 
>
> Thanks in advance. 
>
> Roberto 
>

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