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Added short comment on snapshotting closed indices
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Minor additions to java version section
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4 changes: 3 additions & 1 deletion docs/reference/getting-started.asciidoc
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== Installation

Elasticsearch requires Java 7. Specifically as of this writing, it is recommended that you use the Oracle JDK version {jdk}. Java installation varies from platform to platform so we won't go into those details here. Suffice to say, before you install Elasticsearch, please check your Java version first by running (and then install/upgrade accordingly if needed):
Elasticsearch requires Java 7 or Java 8. Specifically as of this writing, it is recommended that you use the Oracle JDK version {jdk}. Java installation varies from platform to platform so we won't go into those details here. Suffice to say, before you install Elasticsearch, please check your Java version first by running (and then install/upgrade accordingly if needed):

[source,sh]
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java -version
echo $JAVA_HOME
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We strongly recommend installing the _same_ version of Java on all nodes in the cluster.

Once we have Java set up, we can then download and run Elasticsearch. The binaries are available from http://www.elasticsearch.org/download[`www.elasticsearch.org/download`] along with all the releases that have been made in the past. For each release, you have a choice among a `zip` or `tar` archive, or a `DEB` or `RPM` package. For simplicity, let's use the tar file.

Let's download the Elasticsearch {version} tar as follows (Windows users should download the zip package):
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3 changes: 2 additions & 1 deletion docs/reference/modules/snapshots.asciidoc
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The list of indices that should be included into the snapshot can be specified using the `indices` parameter that
supports <<search-multi-index-type,multi index syntax>>. The snapshot request also supports the
supports <<search-multi-index-type,multi index syntax>>. Note that snapshot does not backup closed indices. If the
`indices` parameter specified includes only closed indices, the snapshot will fail with an error `Indices don't have primary shards`. The snapshot request also supports the
`ignore_unavailable` option. Setting it to `true` will cause indices that do not exist to be ignored during snapshot
creation. By default, when `ignore_unavailable` option is not set and an index is missing the snapshot request will fail.
By setting `include_global_state` to false it's possible to prevent the cluster global state to be stored as part of
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