# Incremental Snapshot / Restore

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/incremental-snapshot-restore/28282>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [August 29, 2015, 12:46pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/incremental-snapshot-restore/28282 "2015-08-29T12:46:38Z")\
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**Post date:** [January 11, 2016, 12:54pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/incremental-snapshot-restore/28282/11 "2016-01-11T12:54:46Z")

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Thanks for your response @dadoonet

Please check the below url, in which I want to know the difference of snapshots.

> [@Snapshot & Restore clarification](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/snapshot-restore-clarification/38866):
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> Hi all, We are using Elasticsearch 1.7.2 in Prod and having 3 master nodes, 3 data nodes & 1 client node. ES cluster has 3 indices such as, Index name Primary size Shards es\_chr, 2 GB 1 es\_cval 173 GB 6 es\_item 850 GB 18 Yesterday we took snapshot in Production cluster and I can see in repository snapshot files/folders were generated with based on the number of shards allotted and then we restored…

In my scenario, If I know I can able to find the difference of snapshots I can workaround some activities to backup the prod data.

Pease check it and let me know your feedback.

Thanks,  
Ganeshbabu R

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