Elastic

Elastic Snapshot API

The snapshot and restore APIs are used to take snapshots of running clusters. Snapshots are backups of individual indices or entire clusters.

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Operations 18

POST /_snapshot/{repository}/_cleanup Clean up the snapshot repository #

PUT /_snapshot/{repository}/{snapshot}/_clone/{target_snapshot} Clone a snapshot #

GET /_snapshot/{repository}/{snapshot} Get snapshot information #

PUT /_snapshot/{repository}/{snapshot} Create a snapshot #

POST /_snapshot/{repository}/{snapshot} Create a snapshot #

DELETE /_snapshot/{repository}/{snapshot} Delete snapshots #

GET /_snapshot/{repository} Get snapshot repository information #

PUT /_snapshot/{repository} Create or update a snapshot repository #

POST /_snapshot/{repository} Create or update a snapshot repository #

DELETE /_snapshot/{repository} Delete snapshot repositories #

GET /_snapshot Get snapshot repository information #

POST /_snapshot/{repository}/_analyze Analyze a snapshot repository #

POST /_snapshot/{repository}/_verify_integrity Verify the repository integrity #

POST /_snapshot/{repository}/{snapshot}/_restore Restore a snapshot #

GET /_snapshot/_status Get the snapshot status #

GET /_snapshot/{repository}/_status Get the snapshot status #

GET /_snapshot/{repository}/{snapshot}/_status Get the snapshot status #

POST /_snapshot/{repository}/_verify Verify a snapshot repository #

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OpenAPI Specification

openapi: 3.2.0
info:
  title: Elasticsearch Snapshot API
  description: 'Elasticsearch provides REST APIs that are used by the UI components and can be called directly to configure and access Elasticsearch features.

    ## Documentation source and versions

    This documentation is derived from the main branch of the elasticsearch-specification repository. It is provided under license Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International.

    This documentation contains work-in-progress information for future Elastic Stack releases.'
  license:
    name: Apache 2.0
    url: https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch-specification/blob/main/LICENSE
  version: ''
security:
- apiKeyAuth: []
- basicAuth: []
- bearerAuth: []
tags:


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