Persist Elastic Search Data in Docker Container

elasticsearch docker

If you started from the official ES image, it is using a volume (https://github.com/docker-library/elasticsearch/blob/7d08b8e82fb8ca19745dab75ee32ba5a746ac999/2.1/Dockerfile#L41). Because of this, any data written to that volume will not be committed by Docker.In order to backup the data, you need to copy the data out of the container: docker cp <container name>:/usr/share/elasticsearch/data <dest>