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@ -190,6 +190,19 @@ These snapshots are built on a nightly basis which expire after a couple weeks.
yarn es snapshot
```
##### Keeping data between snapshots
If you want to keep the data inside your Elasticsearch between usages of this command,
you should use the following command, to keep your data folder outside the downloaded snapshot
folder:
```bash
yarn es snapshot -E path.data=../data
```
The same parameter can be used with the source and archive command shown in the following
paragraphs.
#### Source
By default, it will reference an [elasticsearch](https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch) checkout which is a sibling to the Kibana directory named `elasticsearch`. If you wish to use a checkout in another location you can provide that by supplying `--source-path`