# Number of requests to cloud during an incremental snapshot

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/number-of-requests-to-cloud-during-an-incremental-snapshot/362981>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Tags:** snapshot-and-restore\
**Created:** [July 11, 2024, 8:00pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/number-of-requests-to-cloud-during-an-incremental-snapshot/362981 "2024-07-11T20:00:31Z")\
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**Author:** ![aditya.pingale](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/aditya.pingale/32/124156_2.png) [@aditya.pingale](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/aditya.pingale)\
**Post date:** [July 11, 2024, 8:00pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/number-of-requests-to-cloud-during-an-incremental-snapshot/362981/1 "2024-07-11T20:00:31Z")

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Hi,  
I am trying to setup a snapshot repository with AWS or google cloud. There is a tradeoff between cost for requests and storage cost. I wanted to know whether there is a way I could guess the amount of requests elasticsearch would make to the cloud in order to create an incremental snapshot. I read it in one of the forums that it would depend on the segments. I get the segment count as -- "count" : 27828, will this mean minimum these many requests would be required for every incremental snapshot or elasticsearch could do this operation in bulks. The cost of operations performed is a major factor for us to determine which cloud to proceed with. Does it just downloads the metadata for this information?

Another question I had was whether I can copy the entire contents of a repository, setup a new repository move these contents to the new repository, will I be able to restore from this new repository which contains a copy of my old repository.  
Example, I have repository A which has all the backups I need. I create a repository B, copy and paste the contents of A to B. If I restore from this B repository will it be corrupted data?

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**Author:** ![Artem\_Shelkovnikov](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/artem_shelkovnikov/32/134322_2.png) [@Artem\_Shelkovnikov](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Artem_Shelkovnikov)\
**Post date:** [July 11, 2024, 9:01pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/number-of-requests-to-cloud-during-an-incremental-snapshot/362981/2 "2024-07-11T21:01:25Z")

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Category updated on July 11, 2024, 9:01pm UTC

From #Elastic Search to #Elasticsearch

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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:** [August 8, 2024, 9:01pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/number-of-requests-to-cloud-during-an-incremental-snapshot/362981/3 "2024-08-08T21:01:51Z")

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Closed on August 8, 2024, 9:01pm UTC

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