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Repository settings

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Repository settings

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The Azure repository supports following settings:

client: Azure named client to use. Defaults to default.
container: Container name. You must create the azure container before creating the repository. Defaults to elasticsearch-snapshots.
base_path: Specifies the path within container to repository data. Defaults to empty (root directory).
chunk_size: Big files can be broken down into chunks during snapshotting if needed. Specify the chunk size as a value and unit, for example: 10MB, 5KB, 500B. Defaults to 64MB (64MB max).
compress: When set to true metadata files are stored in compressed format. This setting doesn’t affect index files that are already compressed by default. Defaults to false.
max_restore_bytes_per_sec: Throttles per node restore rate. Defaults to 40mb per second.
max_snapshot_bytes_per_sec: Throttles per node snapshot rate. Defaults to 40mb per second.
readonly: Makes repository read-only. Defaults to false.
location_mode: primary_only or secondary_only. Defaults to primary_only. Note that if you set it to secondary_only, it will force readonly to true.

Some examples, using scripts:

# The simplest one
PUT _snapshot/my_backup1
{
    "type": "azure"
}

# With some settings
PUT _snapshot/my_backup2
{
    "type": "azure",
    "settings": {
        "container": "backup-container",
        "base_path": "backups",
        "chunk_size": "32m",
        "compress": true
    }
}


# With two accounts defined in elasticsearch.yml (my_account1 and my_account2)
PUT _snapshot/my_backup3
{
    "type": "azure",
    "settings": {
        "client": "secondary"
    }
}
PUT _snapshot/my_backup4
{
    "type": "azure",
    "settings": {
        "client": "secondary",
        "location_mode": "primary_only"
    }
}

Example using Java:

client.admin().cluster().preparePutRepository("my_backup_java1")
    .setType("azure").setSettings(Settings.builder()
        .put(Storage.CONTAINER, "backup-container")
        .put(Storage.CHUNK_SIZE, new ByteSizeValue(32, ByteSizeUnit.MB))
    ).get();

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