# Creating multiple snapshots one after other immediatly

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/creating-multiple-snapshots-one-after-other-immediatly/106926>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [November 8, 2017, 7:59pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/creating-multiple-snapshots-one-after-other-immediatly/106926 "2017-11-08T19:59:24Z")\
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**Author:** ![warkolm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/warkolm/32/39224_2.png) [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)\
**Post date:** [November 9, 2017, 2:31am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/creating-multiple-snapshots-one-after-other-immediatly/106926/3 "2017-11-09T02:31:53Z")

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There can only be one snapshot taken at a time. This is because we do things under the hood like stop merging of segments to ensure consistency.

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