rackspace-cookbooks/elkstack — pull request #45 by martinb3 (2014-09-16 18:43:16+00:00)
Title: Backup Elasticsearch indexes with new Snapshot API

It might worth looking at http://www.elasticsearch.org/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/modules-snapshots.html . I've never used ES snapshot, but it would be a nice feature for this stack (or rather the upstream cookbook)