Elasticsearch_Installation

Elasticsearch Installation

• Download https://www.elastic.co/downloads/past-releases/elasticsearch-5-6-9
• Install Java JDK 8+ and make sure that %JAVA_HOME% is set in your path.
• Unzip elasticsearch-5.6.9.zip to your preferred location. In this tutorial, we unzip it to C:\elasticsearch on a windows machine.
• Edit elasticsearch.yml and set path.repo to your snapshot repo. For example,

path.repo: C:/elasticsearch/elasticsearch_backup

• Start up the Elasticsearch server (C:\elasticsearch\elasticsearch-5.6.9\bin\elasticsearch)
• Testing your Elasticsearch server by checking http://localhost:9200

Loading the CIL data

• Create a snapshot location in Elasticserach:

curl -XPUT http://localhost:9200/_snapshot/cil_es_backup -d '
{
   "type": "fs",
   "settings": {
       "compress" : true,
       "location": "C:/elasticsearch/elasticsearch_backup/cil_es_backup"
   }
}'

• Download https://cildata.crbs.ucsd.edu/cil_elasticsearch_backup/cil_es_backup.zip
• Unzip and untar files to C:/elasticsearch/elasticsearch_backup/cil_es_backup
• Test the snapshot by checking http://localhost:9200/_snapshot/cil_es_backup/_all and you should see "cil_v1_0" snapshot
• Restore snapshot:

curl -XPOST http://localhost:9200/_snapshot/cil_es_backup/cil_v1_0/_restore?wait_for_completion=true

• Test the data URL:

http://localhost:9200/ccdbv8/data/CIL_2