Backups in Managed Service for Elasticsearch
Warning
Starting April 11, 2024, support for Yandex Managed Service for Elasticsearch is discontinued.
You can create OpenSearch clusters in Yandex Cloud as an alternative to 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 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 in Managed Service for Elasticsearch.
Storing backups
Storing backups in Managed Service for Elasticsearch:
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Backups are stored in object storage as binaries.
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All backups (automatic or manual) are stored for seven days.
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Backup storage is not subject to quotas
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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 the Managed Service for Elasticsearch pricing policy.
Checking backup recovery
To test how backup works, restore a cluster from a backup and check the integrity of your data.