# Elastic snapshot, best practice to take snapshots

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-snapshot-best-practice-to-take-snapshots/192767>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [July 29, 2019, 7:52pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-snapshot-best-practice-to-take-snapshots/192767 "2019-07-29T19:52:32Z")\
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**Author:** ![Elast1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/e9c0ed/32.png) [@Elast1](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Elast1)\
**Post date:** [July 29, 2019, 7:52pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-snapshot-best-practice-to-take-snapshots/192767/1 "2019-07-29T19:52:32Z")

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We have a logs data which goes to elastic search cluster holding around 180 shards and 1 tB of data on each data node of total 3 data nodes cluster.

1. I want to take the snapshot of all indices. What is the best practice? Should I take it daily or hourly? What is the impact on performance in each case.
2. How soon I should run curator job for these i.e. every hour or twice daily or daily to get the best performance?

We are deleting the old indices older than 15 days. Thanks.

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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:** [August 26, 2019, 7:52pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-snapshot-best-practice-to-take-snapshots/192767/2 "2019-08-26T19:52:38Z")

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