Elasticsearch - Take full snapshot using the snapshot api

Question

Is there an option to take full snapshot using the ES snapshot api. we would like to take full snapshot every 3 days.

Answer 1

You can refer to the following document: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/opensearch-service/latest/developerguide/managedomains-snapshots.html

I used to do something the same in my previous company where we had a lambda trigger the backup every week via cron and a Full backup used to happen of all Documents and indexes. I have thought tried to restore once which failed the first time, but the second time it worked though, the issue was the instance was small and it needed a bigger one to restore the data, so please those setting as well.