# Do snapshots backup everything?

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/do-snapshots-backup-everything/168949>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [February 19, 2019, 7:18am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/do-snapshots-backup-everything/168949 "2019-02-19T07:18:27Z")\
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**Author:** ![gyau](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/gyau/32/37824_2.png) [@gyau](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/gyau)\
**Post date:** [February 19, 2019, 7:18am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/do-snapshots-backup-everything/168949/1 "2019-02-19T07:18:27Z")

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I'm new at using this feature, so I'm a quite confused about it.  
What I understood is that it creates a backup of the ES indices, so does it mean that it creates a backup of all the documents, regardless of how many docs there are?  
Does it also include the index patterns, visualizations, saved searches, etc?

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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:** [February 19, 2019, 7:20am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/do-snapshots-backup-everything/168949/2 "2019-02-19T07:20:36Z")

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> [@gyau](#):
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> Does it also include the index patterns, visualizations, saved searches, etc?

If you are backing up the `.kibana*` indices, then yes, as that is where they are stored as documents.

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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 19, 2019, 7:21am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/do-snapshots-backup-everything/168949/3 "2019-03-19T07:21:58Z")

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