elasticsnapshot

elasticsnapshot

This is a tool which can be used to create and to restore a snapshot of an entire Elasticsearch cluster.

Installation

go get github.com/Azure/helm-elasticstack/tools/elasticsnapshot

Alternatively you can build the docker image by cloning the repository and executing the following command:

make image

Usage

$> elasticsnapshot help
Usage: elasticsnapshot <flags> <subcommand> <subcommand args>

Subcommands:
        commands         list all command names
        create           create a new snapshot of the entire Elasticsearch cluster in an Azure storage
        flags            describe all known top-level flags
        help             describe subcommands and their syntax
        restore          restore an entire Elasticsearch cluster snapshot from Azure storage
        status           retrieves the status of an Elasticsearch snapshot


Use "elasticsnapshot flags" for a list of top-level flags

Create Snapshot

You can define the basic authentication credentials used by your Elasticsearch cluster in a auth-file.json as follows:

{
  "username": "<USER NAME>",
  "password": "<PASSWORD>"
}

A snapshot of the Elasticsearch cluster can be created in Azure storage with the following command:

elasticsnapshot create -host=<ELASTICSEARCH-HOST> -port=<ELASTICSEARCH-PORT> \
-auth-file=auth-file.json -respository <REPOSITORY-NAME> -snapshot <SNAPSHOT-NAME> -account <STROAGE_ACCOUNT>

or run the tool in a docker container:

docker run --rm -v ${PWD}:/config -t mseoss/elasticsnapshot create -host=<ELASTICSEARCH-HOST> \
-port=<ELASTICSEARCH-PORT> -auth-file=/config/auth-file.json -respository <REPOSITORY-NAME> -snapshot <SNAPSHOT-NAME> -account <STROAGE_ACCOUNT>

The snapshot will be created asynchronously. You can retrieve the status of the snapshot in order to check if the snapshot is being created.

elasticsnapshot status -host=<ELASTICSEARCH-HOST> -port=<ELASTICSEARCH-PORT> \
-auth-file=auth-file.json -respository <REPOSITORY-NAME> -snapshot <SNAPSHOT-NAME>

Restore Snapshot

A snapshot can be restored from Azure storage as follows:

elasticsnapshot restore -host=<ELASTICSEARCH-HOST> -port=<ELASTICSEARCH-PORT> \
-auth-file=auth-file.json -respository <REPOSITORY-NAME> -snapshot <SNAPSHOT-NAME>

The snapshot is restored asynchronously. You can check the status of the restore operations by running the command:

elasticsnapshot status -host=<ELASTICSEARCH-HOST> -port=<ELASTICSEARCH-PORT> \
-auth-file=auth-file.json -respository <REPOSITORY-NAME> -snapshot <SNAPSHOT-NAME>

Development

You can execute the tests and build the tool using the default make target:

make

To build and publish the docker image execute:

make image
make image-push