# Can the Snapshot Restore restores all my data just once

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/can-the-snapshot-restore-restores-all-my-data-just-once/353538>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Tags:** snapshot-and-restore\
**Created:** [February 19, 2024, 4:41am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/can-the-snapshot-restore-restores-all-my-data-just-once/353538 "2024-02-19T04:41:13Z")\
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**Author:** ![JasonREC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/858c86/32.png) [@JasonREC](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/JasonREC)\
**Post date:** [February 19, 2024, 4:41am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/can-the-snapshot-restore-restores-all-my-data-just-once/353538/1 "2024-02-19T04:41:13Z")

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Hi I have a question about the snapshot restore mechanism,

Senerio,  
I create an index, and it has data keep indexing in it and I have set the Elasticsearch to take snapshot once per night specficly for this index, let say after 30 days, I delete this index, and I want to restore it.

Suppose at this point, I will have 30 snapshots, and each snapshot is labaled with a date. if I pick the 30th one, would it be able to recover the data from day 1 til day 30? or it just recover the data between day 29 to day 30

below is my policy set up

 ![p2](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/2/0/20012346fdb655215f37342e7319dc33e5e7f2ae.png)  
 ![p1](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/3/1/312581642a7feb3d6e6d4a1281b3948da3116075.png)

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**Author:** ![Christian\_Dahlqvist](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/christian_dahlqvist/32/4617_2.png) [@Christian\_Dahlqvist](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Christian_Dahlqvist)\
**Post date:** [February 19, 2024, 6:14am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/can-the-snapshot-restore-restores-all-my-data-just-once/353538/2 "2024-02-19T06:14:19Z")

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Each snapshot is a full snapshot and can restore all data as it present in the indices at the time it was taken.

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**Author:** ![JasonREC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/858c86/32.png) [@JasonREC](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/JasonREC)\
**Post date:** [February 19, 2024, 6:31am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/can-the-snapshot-restore-restores-all-my-data-just-once/353538/3 "2024-02-19T06:31:43Z")

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@Christian_Dahlqvist Got it! Thanks for the reply!

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [March 18, 2024, 6:32am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/can-the-snapshot-restore-restores-all-my-data-just-once/353538/4 "2024-03-18T06:32:13Z")

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