First pass at backing up elasticsearch indices and restoring them. No…

…t tested.

dashboard/scripts/backup.sh

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+#!/bin/bash
+INDEXNAME="xdata_v3, xdata_v2"
+BACKUPDIR="/mnt/es-backups/"
+
+sudo mkdir -p $BACKUPDIR	|| exit $?
+
+# Create the repository 
+curl -XPUT 'http://localhost:9200/_snapshot/xdata_backup' -d `{ "type" : "fs", 
+																"settings" : { 
+																	"location" : "$BACKUPDIR",
+																	"max_snapshot_bytes_per_sec" : "50mb",
+																	"max_restore_bytes_per_sec" : "50mb"
+																}
+															 }`
+
+
+# Backup only relevant indices. We speciy this as to prevent backing up the .kibana index and any other test indexes that were created
+curl -XPUT 'http://localhost:9200/_snapshot/xdata_backup/snapshot' -d `{ "indices" : "$INDEXNAME" }` 

dashboard/scripts/restore.sh

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+#!/bin/bash
+# Restore snapshot
+curl -XPUT 'http://localhost:9200/_snapshot/xdata_backup/snapshot_restore'