| Goal | Use |
|---|---|
| Back up or restore a cluster | Snapshots (_snapshot, SLM). Fast, incremental, and they keep mappings and settings |
| Copy data to another cluster | Reindex from remote (POST _reindex with source.remote), or snapshot and restore |
| Get documents into a local file to inspect, diff or feed to another tool | Export an index to local JSON |
| Back up Kibana dashboards and data views | Export saved objects |
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