Hi everybody, I have one doubt about snapshot mechanism. I imported shakespeare index with 111k documents and then I created a snapshot (ver.1). its size is 21 mb (the same of index). after that I created a second snapshot (ver.2) but the repository folder didn't increase its size (still remain 21…

A snapshot is like a pointer to segments. Segments are immutable. When you don't modify anything and snapshot again, the same segments are still the "right" segments for your index, which means that snapshot2 just reference existing segments. When you delete a snapshot, only segments which are not…

Snapshot and different version

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rschirin (Roger) November 16, 2018, 3:31pm 3

first of all, thank you for the answer.
so:
ver.1 contains all the documents + pointer to segments.
ver.2 contains only a pointer to segments, since all the documents are still in the folder.

right?
so, I can create 10 snapshot but the image of the index on the disk will be just one, isn't it?

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