es-s3-backup

Painless Elasticsearch backup to S3

Elasticsearch automatic backup to S3.

There's also IAM policy example to run shell script from a configured AWS cli environment.

Before you start:

1. be sure you have AWS cli installed for your envornment and configured with AWS access & secret;
2. be sure to set the right policy on your IAM user to run script;
3. Setup the elasticsearch.yml to register your FS repository path on the PATH section of elasticsearch.yml path.repo: /home/elasticsearch_backups
   and reload the engine with
   service elasticsearch restart
   or equivalent for you OS;
4. Register your backup running curl -X PUT "localhost:9200/_snapshot/mybackup" -H 'Content-Type: application/json' -d'{"type": "fs","settings": {"location": "/path/to/my/backup/folder","compress": true}}'
5. Modify the script;
6. Enjoy :).