elasticbackup https://github.com/nickstenning/elasticbackup
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elasticbackup is a set of two command-line tools,

    elasticbackup, and
    elasticrestore

that you can use to backup and restore data from ElasticSearch indices using
their scroll[1] and bulk[2] APIs.

installing
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elasticbackup is available on the Python Package Index, so you can just

    pip install elasticbackup

usage
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To backup the data from an index "foo" on a remote server, "es-1.mydomain.com",
that listens on port 9200, you can run

    elasticbackup es-1.mydomain.com:9200 foo

By default, this will create two files in your working directory. One contains a
JSON-serialisation of the index's mappings. The other contains a dump of the
documents in the index, serialised as JSON, one per line.

To restore these files to a local index, you might run

    elasticrestore -d  -m  localhost:9200 myfoo
./elasticrestore -d address-documents-20210314.json -m address-mappings-20210314.json localhost:40509 address

For more information and complete options allowed by elasticbackup and
elasticrestore, run

    elasticbackup -h
    elasticrestore -h