elasticbackup: tools to backup and restore ElasticSearch indices
pip install elasticbackup==0.0.1
elasticbackup ============= elasticbackup is a set of two command-line tools, elasticbackup, and elasticrestore that you can use to backup and restore data from ElasticSearch indices using their scroll[1] and bulk[2] APIs. installing ---------- elasticbackup is available on the Python Package Index, so you can just pip install elasticbackup usage ----- To backup the data from an index "foo" on a remote server, "es-1.mydomain.com", that listens on port 9200, you can run elasticbackup es-1.mydomain.com:9200 foo By default, this will create two files in your working directory. One contains a JSON-serialisation of the index's mappings. The other contains a dump of the documents in the index, serialised as JSON, one per line. To restore these files to a local index, you might run elasticrestore -d <documents> -m <mappings> localhost:9200 myfoo For more information and complete options allowed by elasticbackup and elasticrestore, run elasticbackup -h elasticrestore -h license ------- elasticbackup is released under the terms of the MIT license, a copy of which can be found in this distribution, in the LICENSE file. [1]: http://www.elasticsearch.org/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/search-request-scroll.html [2]: http://www.elasticsearch.org/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/docs-bulk.html