# Snapshot performance very slow

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/snapshot-performance-very-slow/148482>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [September 13, 2018, 4:27pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/snapshot-performance-very-slow/148482 "2018-09-13T16:27:41Z")\
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**Author:** ![KeninHouston](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/54ee81/32.png) [@KeninHouston](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/KeninHouston)\
**Post date:** [September 13, 2018, 4:27pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/snapshot-performance-very-slow/148482/1 "2018-09-13T16:27:41Z")

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Hi,

I have an ElasticSearch 6.3 cluster running on 3 Azure nodes. Each node is 4 vcpus, 14 GB RAM. My snapshot repository is stored on an Azure fileshare. I have 36 indexes, 14Gb of data.

The snapshot repository is empty, but the snapshots are very slow (Even the initial one). When I check the performance of the cluster in Kibana, it shows typically 1% cpu and only 1Gb RAM used out of a possible 8Gb on each node. I do have compress set on the snapshot repository, but when I test tarring up all the indexes with a compress and then copying them onto the same fileshare, it takes a few minutes. The snapshot takes about an hour

Any experience / suggestions gratefully received

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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:** [October 11, 2018, 4:27pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/snapshot-performance-very-slow/148482/2 "2018-10-11T16:27:44Z")

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