# Elasticsearch incompatible-snapshots purpose

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-incompatible-snapshots-purpose/91064>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [June 28, 2017, 8:28am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-incompatible-snapshots-purpose/91064 "2017-06-28T08:28:08Z")\
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**Author:** ![living-albert](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/958977/32.png) [@living-albert](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/living-albert)\
**Post date:** [June 28, 2017, 8:28am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-incompatible-snapshots-purpose/91064/1 "2017-06-28T08:28:08Z")

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Incompatible-snapshots file has appeared on amazon-s3 after a couple of backups using elasticsearch-curator.

What is the purpose of that file? Should I remove it? What information it provides?

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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 26, 2017, 8:33am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-incompatible-snapshots-purpose/91064/2 "2017-07-26T08:33:48Z")

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Closed on July 26, 2017, 8:33am UTC

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