Restoring a snapshot

Once you have snapshots of your data, it can be restored. The restore process is very fast – the indexed shard data is simply copied on the nodes and activated.

Getting ready

You will need an up-and-running Elasticsearch installation—similar to the one that we described in the Downloading and installing Elasticsearch recipe in Chapter 1, Getting Started. 

To execute the commands, any HTTP client can be used, such as Curl (https://curl.haxx.se/) or Postman (https://www.getpostman.com/). You can use the Kibana console as it provides code completion and better character escaping for Elasticsearch.

In order to correctly execute the following commands, the backup that was created...