ElasticSearch Index creation, migration

##Make ElasticSearch Snapshot

See http://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/1.4/modules-snapshots.html

$ curl -XPUT 'http://127.0.0.1:9200/_snapshot/es_backup' -d '{
    "type": "fs",
    "settings": {
        "location": "/Users/dshorthouse/Documents/es_backup",
        "compress": true
    }
}'

$ curl -XPUT "http://127.0.0.1:9200/_snapshot/es_backup/all?wait_for_completion=true" -d '{ "indices" : "collector", "ignore_unavailable" : true, "include_global_state" : false }'

##Restore ElasticSearch Snapshot

To discover where snapshots are located:

$ curl -XGET "http://127.0.0.1:9200/_snapshot/"

To restore:

$ curl -XPOST 'http://127.0.0.1:9200/collector/_close'
$ curl -XPOST "http://127.0.0.1:9200/_snapshot/es_backup/all/_restore" -d '{ "indices": "collector" }'
$ curl -XPOST 'http://127.0.0.1:9200/collector/_open'