# Managing snapshots

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/managing-snapshots/20311>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [October 17, 2014, 8:07pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/managing-snapshots/20311 "2014-10-17T20:07:11Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![Matthias\_Johnson](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/matthias_johnson/32/1196_2.png) [@Matthias\_Johnson](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Matthias_Johnson)\
**Post date:** [October 17, 2014, 8:07pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/managing-snapshots/20311/1 "2014-10-17T20:07:11Z")

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I'm investigating snapshots and came across some things that aren't clear  
in the docs.

My understanding is that the snapshots are incremental and only transfer  
things that were changed since the last snapshot. (Is that shards, lucene  
stuff, something else ???)

One thing that isn't clear is if I create the following

....:9200/\_snapshot/es\_snapshots/snap\_yesterday  
....:9200/\_snapshot/es\_snapshots/snap\_today

Can I restore snap\_yesterday to get that state back OR snap\_today for  
today's snapshot? I read in the groups that a new snapshot would replace  
the change things ....

That also leads to the question of how to manage the snapshots. Is there  
some cleaning I need to (or can) do. If so, then how can I ensure that the  
state of a snapshot is usable if I delete older ones.

Lastly I was thinking about the idea of multiple snapshots. So in the  
examples above I might replace the es\_snapshots with a date such as:

....:9200/\_snapshot//snap\_1  
....:9200/\_snapshot//snap\_2  
....:9200/\_snapshot//snap\_1  
....:9200/\_snapshot//snap\_2

Then I could delete at some point (or "older than X days").

Are there any thoughts around that or am I really misunderstanding things?

@matthias

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**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, 12:55am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/managing-snapshots/20311/2 "2017-07-06T00:55:25Z")

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Closed on July 6, 2017, 12:55am UTC