Is there any way to create a dump file that contains all the data of an index among with its settings and mappings?
A Similar way as mongoDB does with mongodump
or as in Solr its data folder is copied to a backup location.
Cheers!
Here's a new tool we've been working on for exactly this purpose https://github.com/taskrabbit/elasticsearch-dump. You can export indices into/out of JSON files, or from one cluster to another.