# Disable gateway completely, now we have snapshot/restore?

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/disable-gateway-completely-now-we-have-snapshot-restore/16495>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [March 20, 2014, 11:29am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/disable-gateway-completely-now-we-have-snapshot-restore/16495 "2014-03-20T11:29:43Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![Mads\_Martin\_Jorgense](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ecd19e/32.png) [@Mads\_Martin\_Jorgense](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Mads_Martin_Jorgense)\
**Post date:** [March 20, 2014, 11:29am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/disable-gateway-completely-now-we-have-snapshot-restore/16495/1 "2014-03-20T11:29:43Z")

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Hello together,

I'm looking into getting rid of the s3 gateway. I'm snapshotting to s3 and  
use extensive replication (each shard replicated to 4 machines). I the  
unlikely case that I loose a shard completely, then I can recover from  
backup, and I even have to possibility to repopulate the data from scratch  
to get data lost since last snapshot repopulated.

Why use a gateway at all then? How do I completely disable gateway?

Sincerely,  
Mads Martin

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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:** [July 6, 2017, 1:41am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/disable-gateway-completely-now-we-have-snapshot-restore/16495/2 "2017-07-06T01:41:54Z")

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Closed on July 6, 2017, 1:41am UTC