Hi, my current understanding is that snapshot is incremental file/segement by file used by indices. When segments are merged even if no new data are indexed to indices, snapshot will captue the difference due to segment change. Does that mean it will copy duplicate data to snapshot repository? Whe…

How Elasticsearch snapshot works when segments are merged

dadoonet (David Pilato) March 18, 2019, 10:09pm 6

This is correct.

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