# How much memory can one snapshot can have?

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-much-memory-can-one-snapshot-can-have/71854>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [January 17, 2017, 11:54am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-much-memory-can-one-snapshot-can-have/71854 "2017-01-17T11:54:32Z")\
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**Author:** ![Yaswanth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/94ad74/32.png) [@Yaswanth](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Yaswanth)\
**Post date:** [January 17, 2017, 11:54am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-much-memory-can-one-snapshot-can-have/71854/1 "2017-01-17T11:54:32Z")

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HI,  
I created a snapshot even though my node has 5 indexes it is showing only 3 it got stored in snapshot.

Is there is a memory limit for one snapshot?

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:** [February 14, 2017, 11:54am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-much-memory-can-one-snapshot-can-have/71854/2 "2017-02-14T11:54:37Z")

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