# How to Make Incremental Snapshot
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-make-incremental-snapshot/36627
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [December 8, 2015, 11:58am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-make-incremental-snapshot/36627 "2015-12-08T11:58:37Z")
**Posts on this page:** 8
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### Author:  [@krish0608](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/krish0608)
#### Post date: [December 8, 2015, 11:58am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-make-incremental-snapshot/36627/1 "2015-12-08T11:58:37Z")
Hii guyz,,
I am trying out the snapshot/restore feature in ES.Can Anyone provide the details that how can i make my snapshot incremental??Without Using Crone job.
Please Help Me Out.
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### Author:  [@dadoonet](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dadoonet)
#### Post date: [December 8, 2015, 1:52pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-make-incremental-snapshot/36627/2 "2015-12-08T13:52:06Z")
It is incremental by nature.
What is your concern?
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### Author:  [@krish0608](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/krish0608)
#### Post date: [December 9, 2015, 4:14am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-make-incremental-snapshot/36627/3 "2015-12-09T04:14:12Z")
if i add new index in ES. IS It automatically take backup of that index or not?? or i have to do something Else??
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### Author:  [@nik9000](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/nik9000)
#### Post date: [December 9, 2015, 5:56am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-make-incremental-snapshot/36627/4 "2015-12-09T05:56:03Z")
I don't believe snapshots can be scheduled. You'd have to cron them. I
believe you can use an index pattern to run them on all indexes though.
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### Author:  [@krish0608](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/krish0608)
#### Post date: [December 9, 2015, 6:02am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-make-incremental-snapshot/36627/5 "2015-12-09T06:02:22Z")
thanks nik9000....!! is there anyway to scheduled my snapshot without cron job.
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### Author:  [@dadoonet](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dadoonet)
#### Post date: [December 9, 2015, 6:30am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-make-incremental-snapshot/36627/6 "2015-12-09T06:30:41Z")
No. You need something to call \_snapshot endpoint.
May be in the future with Management API but not yet.
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### Author:  [@kartheek91](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/kartheek91)
#### Post date: [December 9, 2015, 6:37am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-make-incremental-snapshot/36627/7 "2015-12-09T06:37:06Z")
ElasticSearch by default came with incremental backup feature.If we to create a new index and the you need to take snapshot for that index.ElasticSearch will not take snapshot without specifying to it.
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 5, 2017, 11:32pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-make-incremental-snapshot/36627/8 "2017-07-05T23:32:25Z")