# Gateway snapshot

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/gateway-snapshot/10364>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [January 16, 2013, 3:01am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/gateway-snapshot/10364 "2013-01-16T03:01:56Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![ajan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d07c76/32.png) [@ajan](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ajan)\
**Post date:** [January 16, 2013, 3:01am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/gateway-snapshot/10364/1 "2013-01-16T03:01:56Z")

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This link states that periodic snapshot are taken, can anyone point  
out what would be the location of these snapshots? and how these  
snapshots could be used to recover a corrupted index?

[http://www.elasticsearch.org/guide/reference/api/admin-indices-gateway-snapshot.html](http://www.elasticsearch.org/guide/reference/api/admin-indices-gateway-snapshot.html)

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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, 2:56am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/gateway-snapshot/10364/2 "2017-07-06T02:56:13Z")

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