# Snapshot throttle limit problem

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/snapshot-throttle-limit-problem/21051>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [December 3, 2014, 9:22am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/snapshot-throttle-limit-problem/21051 "2014-12-03T09:22:55Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![johd](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/johd/32/1028_2.png) [@johd](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/johd)\
**Post date:** [December 3, 2014, 9:22am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/snapshot-throttle-limit-problem/21051/1 "2014-12-03T09:22:55Z")

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Hi,

I have 12 elasticsearch nodes, with 10gb eth

Ive been having alot of problem with the performance of snapshots, its throttles to 20 mb/s even tho i set max\_snapshot\_bytes\_per\_sec to something else, ive tried to set it in bytes, in megabytes (500m, 500mb)

Ive tried to move 100gb file from elastic-node to my nfs-server, its about 1gb/s  
Ive tried to move 100gb file from elastic-node down to my share, its about 1gb/s  
Ive tried to just cp -rp my index from elastic-node to my share, its about 1gb/s

Am i missing something here? How is the max\_snapshot\_bytes\_per\_sec suppose to look like?  
Are there any other settings (like recovery streams etc) that affects this?

My backup dir:  
curl -XPUT '[http://localhost:9200/\_snapshot/my\_backup](http://localhost:9200/_snapshot/my_backup)' -d '{  
"type": "fs",  
"settings": {  
"location": "/misc/backup\_elastic/snapshot",  
"compress": true,  
"verify": true,  
"max\_snapshot\_bytes\_per\_sec" : "1048576000",  
"max\_restore\_bytes\_per\_sec" : "1048576000"  
}  
}'

And snapshot:  
curl -XPUT "localhost:9200/\_snapshot/my\_backup/snapshot\_test" -d '{  
"indices": "index-2014-01-03",  
"ignore\_unavailable": "true",  
"include\_global\_state": "true",  
"partial": "true"  
}'

Regards, Johan

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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 6, 2017, 12:46am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/snapshot-throttle-limit-problem/21051/2 "2017-07-06T00:46:23Z")

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