# Is the snapshot incremental? **URL:** \ **Category:** Elasticsearch\ **Created:** [May 28, 2015, 5:40am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-the-snapshot-incremental/23701 "2015-05-28T05:40:36Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![shoebalig](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c57346/32.png) [@shoebalig](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/shoebalig)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2015, 5:40am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-the-snapshot-incremental/23701/1 "2015-05-28T05:40:36Z")
I am suffering from incremental snapshot problem. my cron-job runs daily. each day the snapshot has a different name.There are chances that there is no modification or changes found on original index. however cron-job create snapshot again on its scheduled time. which leads duplicity in data and restore takes a lot of time. What if I retain only last 5 or last 10 snapshot? Will this cause any data lose anyway? And on restore whole index will be restored? -- _Thanks & RegardsShoeb Khan8743990512_ ## -- Please update your bookmarks! We have moved to [https://discuss.elastic.co/](https://discuss.elastic.co/) You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "elasticsearch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [elasticsearch+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com](mailto:elasticsearch+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com). To view this discussion on the web visit [https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/CAPUopFR589RY-jUcNf7ZkUGz\_YoRgtp0BgJCn86dFt9G-Hkxuw%40mail.gmail.com](https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/CAPUopFR589RY-jUcNf7ZkUGz_YoRgtp0BgJCn86dFt9G-Hkxuw%40mail.gmail.com). For more options, visit [https://groups.google.com/d/optout](https://groups.google.com/d/optout). ---
**Author:** ![Allan\_Mitchell](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/edb3f5/32.png) [@Allan\_Mitchell](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Allan_Mitchell)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2015, 5:50am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-the-snapshot-incremental/23701/2 "2015-05-28T05:50:36Z")
Hi Does this help? From: > **[Snapshot and restore | Elastic Docs](https://www.elastic.co/docs/deploy-manage/tools/snapshot-and-restore)** > > A snapshot is a backup of a running Elasticsearch cluster. You can use snapshots to: Regularly back up a cluster with no downtime, Recover data after... The index snapshot process is incremental. In the process of making the index snapshot Elasticsearch analyses the list of the index files that are already stored in the repository and copies only files that were created or changed since the last snapshot. That allows multiple snapshots to be preserved in the repository in a compact form. On 28 May 2015 at 06:40, shoeb khan [shoebalig@gmail.com](mailto:shoebalig@gmail.com) wrote: > I too suffering from same problem. my cron-job runs daily. There are > chances that there is no modification or changes found ion original index. > however cron-job create snapshot again on its scheduled time. which leads > duplicity and restore takes a lot of time. > > What if I retain only last 5 or last 10 snapshot? Will this cause any data > lose anyway? > > And on restore whole index will be restored? > > -- > > _Thanks & RegardsShoeb Khan8743990512_ > > ## -- Please update your bookmarks! We have moved to [https://discuss.elastic.co/](https://discuss.elastic.co/) > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "elasticsearch" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [elasticsearch+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com](mailto:elasticsearch+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com). > To view this discussion on the web visit > [https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/CAPUopFR589RY-jUcNf7ZkUGz\_YoRgtp0BgJCn86dFt9G-Hkxuw%40mail.gmail.com](https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/CAPUopFR589RY-jUcNf7ZkUGz_YoRgtp0BgJCn86dFt9G-Hkxuw%40mail.gmail.com) > [https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/CAPUopFR589RY-jUcNf7ZkUGz\_YoRgtp0BgJCn86dFt9G-Hkxuw%40mail.gmail.com?utm\_medium=email&utm\_source=footer](https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/CAPUopFR589RY-jUcNf7ZkUGz_YoRgtp0BgJCn86dFt9G-Hkxuw%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer) > . > For more options, visit [https://groups.google.com/d/optout](https://groups.google.com/d/optout). ## -- Please update your bookmarks! We have moved to [https://discuss.elastic.co/](https://discuss.elastic.co/) You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "elasticsearch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [elasticsearch+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com](mailto:elasticsearch+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com). To view this discussion on the web visit [https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/CAECdJzBuchY5FDMH8w3pMt\_fU5nvsva55SqFckuabTfN%2BFjjog%40mail.gmail.com](https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/CAECdJzBuchY5FDMH8w3pMt_fU5nvsva55SqFckuabTfN%2BFjjog%40mail.gmail.com). For more options, visit [https://groups.google.com/d/optout](https://groups.google.com/d/optout). ---
**Author:** ![shoebalig](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c57346/32.png) [@shoebalig](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/shoebalig)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2015, 6:33am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-the-snapshot-incremental/23701/3 "2015-05-28T06:33:47Z")
This is helpful. It looks like that, this has been handled in 1.5, prior to that like 1.4.4 in my case. it was not handled in this manner in older version1.4.\* ? -- View this message in context: [http://elasticsearch-users.115913.n3.nabble.com/Is-the-snapshot-incremental-tp4074934p4074938.html](http://elasticsearch-users.115913.n3.nabble.com/Is-the-snapshot-incremental-tp4074934p4074938.html) Sent from the Elasticsearch Users mailing list archive at [Nabble.com](http://Nabble.com). ## -- Please update your bookmarks! We have moved to [https://discuss.elastic.co/](https://discuss.elastic.co/) You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "elasticsearch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [elasticsearch+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com](mailto:elasticsearch+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com). To view this discussion on the web visit [https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/1432794827230-4074938.post%40n3.nabble.com](https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/1432794827230-4074938.post%40n3.nabble.com). For more options, visit [https://groups.google.com/d/optout](https://groups.google.com/d/optout). ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2017, 12:11am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-the-snapshot-incremental/23701/4 "2017-07-06T00:11:27Z")