Backups and Restores

Backup Storage

a9s Search uses the plugins repository-s3 and repository-azure for backup and restore. Please see the following pages for further details:

📄️Creating Backups on S3 Compatible Services

This section describes how to back up a9s Search to Amazon AWS S3 or any other S3-compatible service.

Known Limitations of a9s Search's Backups

The backup process is based on OpenSearch's Snapshot functionality. This means that:

• Backups are not encrypted. Due to this, the backup_manager_encryption_key property cannot be set.
• Backups are not compressed.
• Backups cannot be downloaded.
• The storage backend is limited to AWS S3, S3 compatible services, and Azure. Furthermore, it does not support SSL with unknown certificate issuers.