As I known, the first snapshot backup after creating repo is full backup, after that, it's incremental by default. But it seems there is no way to set the mode manually. Is there any one has the experience, please share, thanks.

yes, I think no before my ask. Why, is it a fundamental feature for ES backup?

[image] leonzhan: Why, is it a fundamental feature for ES backup? Because it isn't needed. Incremental backups are only incremental in that they don't re-copy files that haven't changed in the index. Since the index is mostly write once this works out fairly well. You don't need to keep the…

Thank you for your reply As your said, how I could control backup data size? The storage is not free for my case. My planned strategy is to keep backup data in latest 7 days, it seems not possible, right??

The only knob you have to control size is deleting old backups. Deleting old backups will remove whatever files are no longer needed. The files don't stick around forever.

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warkolm (Mark Walkom) July 31, 2016, 12:38am 2

You cannot, you need to create a new repo for a full backup.

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