# 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:** ![dadoonet](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/dadoonet/32/137187_2.png) [@dadoonet](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dadoonet)\
**Post date:** [August 31, 2015, 7:20am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/incremental-snapshot-restore/28282/6 "2015-08-31T07:20:12Z")

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No.

Let me explain with an example:

Snapshot1 pushed segments 1, 2, 3 in repository X  
Snapshot2 needs to backup segments 1, 2, 3, 4 (4 contains the new data). But repository X already has segments 1, 2, 3. So the \_snapshot action will only copy for snapshot2 the segment 4.

When you delete the snapshot1, as snapshot2 also has links to segments 1, 2, 3 those files are not removed.

When you restore snapshot2, you restore all files linked: segments 1, 2, 3 and 4.

Make sense?

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