# Registering Repository

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/registering-repository/306930>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Tags:** snapshot-and-restore\
**Created:** [June 11, 2022, 7:53am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/registering-repository/306930 "2022-06-11T07:53:38Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![wonderland14](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/wonderland14/32/102959_2.png) [@wonderland14](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/wonderland14)\
**Post date:** [June 11, 2022, 7:53am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/registering-repository/306930/1 "2022-06-11T07:53:38Z")

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What is more applicable, turning On or Off source-only in registering repository?  
Upon my research, this is more advantage when it comes to lessen disk space, and by doing this, it only includes fields and metadata not the cluster/index. So, I want to know what is much more better and why?

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**Author:** ![warkolm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/warkolm/32/39224_2.png) [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)\
**Post date:** [June 14, 2022, 1:42am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/registering-repository/306930/2 "2022-06-14T01:42:26Z")

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I guess that depends what you want to take snapshots of.

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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 12, 2022, 1:42am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/registering-repository/306930/3 "2022-07-12T01:42:38Z")

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