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Windows based software to backup Elasticsearch database automatically. Schedule regular backups and save your Elasticsearch DB to a local server, NAS, cloud storage, SFTP server or other supported destination. Keep your backups under your control with no backup limits or extra storage charges. Try Elasticsearch Backup Software for free today.
Elasticsearch stores important search data that can be difficult to rebuild if something goes wrong. Accidental index deletion, failed updates, server problems or incorrect changes can result in data loss. It helps you create automatic Elasticsearch database backup, so you can restore your data when needed instead of rebuilding everything from the source.
A failed data import or an incorrect index change can quickly remove or damage important Elasticsearch data. If you have a recent backup, you can restore the index with its data and mappings instead of rebuilding everything from scratch.
Single-node clusters and small deployments have no replica to fall back on. When the disk or host dies, the only copy dies with it unless an export was stored off the cluster.
Mappings cannot be changed in place, so migrations mean reindexing and a wrong analyzer or field type is only discovered afterwards. A backup taken before the change is the rollback.
Elastic Cloud and Amazon OpenSearch Service keep snapshots in storage you do not control. An independent, encrypted export is the copy you own if the deployment is deleted, downgraded or unavailable.
Order, customer and audit-log indices often have to be reproducible for years. Retention tiers keep daily, weekly, monthly and yearly copies automatically, so history is a restore away.
Unauthenticated clusters reachable from the internet are wiped by automated attacks within hours. Encrypted backups kept off the cluster are the clean copy you restore from once access is locked down.
Everything you need to back up Elasticsearch and OpenSearch indices automatically and restore them anywhere.
Snapshots require a repository registered on the cluster and write into the cluster’s own storage. A task for an administrator and on Elastic Cloud the repository is theirs. This tool exports over the plain REST API instead, so nothing is configured or installed on the cluster.
A useful Elasticsearch backup should preserve more than documents. It saves each index's mappings and settings along with its data. It helps retain field types, analyzers and shared settings when the index is restored. Cluster-specific values such as UUIDs and allocation rules are excluded where they should not be copied.
Use one backup tool across Elasticsearch 7 and 8, OpenSearch 1 and 2, Elastic Cloud and Amazon OpenSearch Service. The backup process relies on standard REST APIs for retrieving mappings, settings and documents for restoring data.
Connect to Elasticsearch securely using a username and password or an API key. HTTPS is supported for secure connections, including Elasticsearch 8 and Elastic Cloud. Your login details are safely stored in Windows Credential Manager instead of plain-text files.
The Elasticsearch backup tool can backup Elasticsearch indexes even when New documents are being added or exiting data is changing it's read the data in small batch to create a reliable backup without keeping a long running connection open.
Set schedule to run automate Elasticsearch backup on a daily weekly, monthly or yearly schedule. You can also choose how many backups copies keep. Older backups are removed automatically based on your retention settings.
Backup Elasticsearch Indices to local drive, NAS, OneDrive Amazon S3 ,wasabi, Backblaze, B-2, Cloudflare, R2, MinLO, SFTP or FTP you can also add a second storage location to keep an extra copy of every backup.
Backups are compressed to reduce storage space and then protected with AES-256-GCM encryption. This helps keep your Elasticsearch data secure, even when backups are stored on shared or cloud storage.
Try all Elasticsearch backup features free for 15 days with no credit card required. If you continue, the plan costs $9 per month when billed annually and includes a 14-day money-back guarantee.
The Elasticsearch backup tool makes backups simple with four-step wizard. Connect to your cluster, choose a storage location, se a backup schedule and the software handle the rest automatically.
The software exports each selected index with its mapping and store it at the selected location on every schedule.
Connect the backup tool to Elasticsearch for OpenSearch wherever your cluster is running on your own server, in Docker, Kubernetes, Elastic cloud, or Amazon OpenSearch service. You only need the REST endpoints and your login details.
Elasticsearch 8 uses HTTPS and authentication by default. Turn on HTTPS in the tool and enter your Elasticsearch login details. You can use the elastic user or create a user with permission to read and monitor the indices you want to backup.
Elastic Cloud provide an HTTPS endpoint, usually through port 443. Copy the Elasticsearch endpoint from your deployment and enter it in the tool. You can then connect using an API key created in Kibana.
Snapshots on Elastic Cloud live in the provider’s storage — this export is the copy you own.
Self-hosted OpenSearch 1 or 2 works with the same option. Use the admin user or a role with read access to the indices, and set HTTPS to yes when the security plugin is enabled.
A managed OpenSearch domain with fine-grained access control accepts a master username and password over HTTPS on port 443. Connect from inside the VPC or over a VPN.
Elasticsearch inside a Docker container is backed up over the network use the compose service name or the port you mapped to the host. Nothing needs to be mounted into the container.
A cluster deployed with the Elastic Cloud on Kubernetes operator is reachable through its HTTP service inside the cluster, or through an ingress or port-forward from your PC.
Elasticsearch 7 clusters often run without TLS or authentication on an internal network. Leave HTTPS at no and the credentials empty, and the tool connects the same way.
Mappings with a custom type name are handled for 7.x.
Restoring an Elasticsearch as backup is simple. Choose the backup job, select the backup you want to restore, choose whether to restore it to the original index or create a new index, and review your settings. The Elasticsearch backup tool decrypts that Decompresses the backup, recreates the index with its saved mappings and settings, and restores the documents. You can restore the backup to the original index or new index or on any reachable Elasticsearch or OpenSearch cluster.
Restore into products_v2 first, compare a few searches with production, then switch the alias — a zero-downtime rehearsal that never touches the live index.
The Elasticsearch backup tool is a desktop application, not a hosted service. It runs on your machine and writes each backup straight to the storage you picked. Nobody charges you per gigabyte, and no copy of your Elasticsearch data ever sits on somebody else’s server.
You pay us once for the software, never for gigabytes. Point a job at a folder on your own PC or NAS and the storage costs nothing at all. Prefer the cloud? Use your own Amazon S3, Wasabi, Backblaze B2, Cloudflare R2, MinIO or OneDrive account and pay their rate directly, with no markup in between. Back up 10 GB or 10 TB. The price of the software does not move.
This is a desktop application. It runs on your machine, connects straight to your Elasticsearch server and writes the backup straight to the destination you chose. Nothing is uploaded to our servers on the way, so we never hold a copy of your data and it is encrypted with AES-256 before it leaves, so even the storage provider only ever sees ciphertext.
Database passwords are never written into a configuration file and never sent anywhere. They are kept in the Windows Credential Manager, and the settings file only stores a reference to the entry. If you switch on the optional online monitoring, it reports job status only name, success or failure, size and duration. Never your data, never your credentials.
| Capability | Prapl SQL Backup Tool | Other Tools |
|---|---|---|
| Backup Automation | Automatically Scheduled | Require manual setup |
| Deployment Support | Self-hosted ES 7/8, OpenSearch, Docker, Kubernetes, Elastic Cloud & Amazon OpenSearch | Limited |
| Storage Destination | Local/NAS, OneDrive, S3, Wasabi, Backblaze, R2, MinIO, SFTP & FTP | Limited storage options |
| Data security | AES-256 before the file leaves your PC | Good |
| Backup Compression | Yes | Supported but limited |
| Backup Monitoring | Dashboard, email & cloud alerts | No |
| Setup Process | Simple wizard, four steps | Complex |
| You hold the keys | Always | No |
| Storage cost | Your own storage · no per-GB fee | Often rented per GB |
Elasticsearch sits under applications where downtime and data loss have real consequences. This backup tool exists to make regular backups effortless, remove the manual steps people forget, and make sure a restorable copy of your data is always within reach when something goes wrong.
01. ExperienceYou should always know how your backups are made and protected. The Elasticsearch backup workflow is simple, documented on this page step by step, and built on Elasticsearch’s own, publicly documented interfaces rather than on anything proprietary or hidden.
02. AuthoritativenessEvery backup is made with REST APIs Elasticsearch and OpenSearch document and support: the mapping and settings APIs for structure, point-in-time search with search_after for documents, and the bulk API for restores. On top of that the tool adds streaming compression and AES-256-GCM encryption before the file reaches its destination.
03. ExpertiseYour Elasticsearch backups stay under your control. The files are encrypted before they are stored, And only your encryption key can unlock them. Your backup data is not kept on any third-party server, so you decide where to store and manage it.
04. TrustworthinessKeep regular backups of product, catalog add content indexes. If an index is accidentally deleted or a reindex goes wrong, you can restore the backup instead of rebuilding the data.
Back up Elasticsearch data whether it runs on your own server ,Elastic Cloud or another hosted environment .Keep your backups organised and easy to manage from one place.
Protect backups with encryption before they are stored .Elasticsearch credentials and API keys are securely saved in Window. Credential Manager, helping keep sensitive information protected.
Use a backup copy of a production index for testing .You can taste mapping changes, analyzers and Elasticsearch upgrades without affecting the live data.
Automate Elasticsearch backups instead of relying on manual scripts. Set schedules, retention rules and backup verification for Elasticsearch running on servers, VMs, dockers, Kubernetes or cloud platforms.
Create separate backup jobs for each client and choose individual schedules and storage locations. Keep client backups organised and protected from a single dashboard.
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