Manage snapshot repositories
ECE ECK Elastic Cloud Hosted Self Managed
Snapshot repositories allow you to back up and restore your Elasticsearch data efficiently. Whether you're using Elastic Cloud Hosted, Elastic Cloud Enterprise (ECE), Elastic Cloud on Kubernetes (ECK), or managing your own Elasticsearch cluster, configuring a snapshot repository ensures data security, long-term archiving, and seamless migration across environments.
If you manage your own Elasticsearch cluster, you can use the following built-in snapshot repository types:
Other repository types are available through official plugins:
Elastic Cloud Hosted deployments automatically register a repository named found-snapshots in Elasticsearch clusters. These repositories are used together with the cloud-snapshot-policy SLM policy to take periodic snapshots of your Elasticsearch clusters. You can also use the found-snapshots repository for your own SLM policies or to store searchable snapshots.
The found-snapshots repository is specific to each deployment. However, you can restore snapshots from another deployment’s found-snapshots repository if the deployments are under the same account and in the same region.
Elastic Cloud Hosted deployments also support the following repository types:
For more details, refer to Registering snapshot repositories in Elastic Cloud Hosted.
Snapshot repositories are managed at the platform level in Elastic Cloud Enterprise (ECE) and can be associated with deployments as needed. ECE supports the creation and maintenance of multiple repositories, but each deployment can be linked to only one repository for automatic snapshots.
When a platform-level repository is associated with a deployment, the found-snapshots repository is added to the Elasticsearch cluster, and, similar to Elastic Cloud, a snapshot is taken every 30 minutes by default. The interval can be adjusted on per deployment basis.
Elastic Cloud Enterprise installations support the following Elasticsearch snapshot repository types:
No repository types other than those listed are supported in the Elastic Cloud Enterprise platform, even if they are supported by Elasticsearch.
For more details, refer to Managing snapshot repositories in Elastic Cloud Enterprise.
Elasticsearch clusters deployed through ECK support the same type of deployments as self-managed Elasticsearch clusters. ECK does not currently provide any automation or functionality to facilitate the integration of snapshot repositores within the Elasticsearch clusters.
For more information and examples, refer to create automated snapshots on ECK.