# 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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**Author:** ![dimalini](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/dimalini/32/22448_2.png) [@dimalini](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dimalini)\
**Post date:** [August 31, 2015, 4:41am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/incremental-snapshot-restore/28282/3 "2015-08-31T04:41:23Z")

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Thanks for the reply David !!

Basically, i was trying out this scenario, to figure out if i can implement a cleanup policy that cleans up those snapshots created before a particular date

As per your clarification, if i try to snapshot a second time in "snapshot1" ,i see this exception  
{  
"error": "InvalidSnapshotNameException[[repo1:snapshot1] Invalid snapshot name [snapshot1], snapshot with such name already exists]",  
"status": 400  
}

How do i mention that this is incremental ? Am i missing something ?

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