The Cloud Aws plugin , overwrites the earlier snapshots in the bucket. Doesn't it impact restore operation? Or is this the expected behaviour? Also how do we purge snapshot older than x days, is purging files older than x days equivalent of it?

Every time you run a new snapshot, it copies the new "files" (new segments) to the the repository and basically link the snapshot with this set of files (existing ones and new ones). If you remove a snapshot, it will look at all files and will remove the ones which are not used anymore by any of th…

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ajays20078 (Ajay) June 11, 2016, 6:34am 5

Alright. Thanks for explaining it in detail.

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