# Maximum number of snapshots

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/maximum-number-of-snapshots/234956>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [May 29, 2020, 4:36pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/maximum-number-of-snapshots/234956 "2020-05-29T16:36:07Z")\
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**Author:** ![chiara](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/db5fbb/32.png) [@chiara](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/chiara)\
**Post date:** [May 29, 2020, 4:36pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/maximum-number-of-snapshots/234956/1 "2020-05-29T16:36:08Z")

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Does a limit exist for snapshots?  
Can I have 72 snapshots of the same cluster? Can I have any issue in restoring one of those snapshot to the old cluster or to a new cluster?

I mean, in other situations forever incremental backups are very hard to restore because of too many merges to apply. Elasticsearch has a different approach, correct?

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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:** [May 30, 2020, 3:07am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/maximum-number-of-snapshots/234956/2 "2020-05-30T03:07:30Z")

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All correct.

You should consider a snapshot as a full backup. Meaning that you can remove any snapshot you want, it will have no consequence on the other snapshots.

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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:** [June 27, 2020, 3:07am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/maximum-number-of-snapshots/234956/3 "2020-06-27T03:07:33Z")

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