Hi All, I have a question about the retention at SLM. If I set a retention period for an SLM Policy, the SLM will deletes all the snapshots older then the retention period. Since Elasticsearch is dealing with incremental snapshots how can I do a full restore (if the base snapshot is already delet…

Elasticsearch SLM retention

Christian_Dahlqvist (Christian Dahlqvist) November 18, 2021, 10:19am 2

Each snapshot is a full snapshot. The incremental aspect of it is that segments that have not changed between snapshots are reused and not copied multiple times.

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Elasticsearch SLM retention

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