Backups in Managed Service for Elasticsearch

Managed Service for Elasticsearch supports automatic and manual index backups.

A backup is automatically created every hour and stored for seven days. You cannot disable automatic backups or change the retention period.

To restore a cluster from a backup, follow this guide.

Creating backupsCreating backups

You can create backups both automatically and manually. After a backup is created, it is compressed for storage. The exact backup size is not displayed.

Backups are only created on running clusters.

For more information about creating a backup manually, see Managing backups.

Storing backupsStoring backups

Storing backups in Managed Service for Elasticsearch:

• Backups are stored in object storage as binaries.

• All backups (automatic or manual) are stored for seven days.

• Backup storage is not subject to quotas or limits for cluster storage space.

• Backups are stored in object storage and do not take up space in cluster storage. If there are N free GB of space in the cluster, the storage of the first N GB of backups is free of charge.

  For more information, see Pricing policy.

Checking backup recoveryChecking backup recovery

To test how backup works, restore a cluster from a backup and check the integrity of your data.