# Snapshots Compression

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/snapshots-compression/306932>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Tags:** elastic-stack-monitoring\
**Created:** [June 11, 2022, 8:59am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/snapshots-compression/306932 "2022-06-11T08:59:48Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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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, 8:59am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/snapshots-compression/306932/1 "2022-06-11T08:59:48Z")

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What is the difference if I toggle switch On the Snapshot Compression? What's the difference when I leave it as Off? Does it any make sense?

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**Author:** ![ylasri](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/ylasri/32/86120_2.png) [@ylasri](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ylasri)\
**Post date:** [June 11, 2022, 9:05am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/snapshots-compression/306932/2 "2022-06-11T09:05:02Z")

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it will be applied only to metadata (like index mapping and settings) but not to the data as it's already compressed. so nothing to gain with this option

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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, 12:58pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/snapshots-compression/306932/3 "2022-06-11T12:58:03Z")

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Oh, but how about the other options below? it seems not useful too i.e Chunk size, Max snapshot bytes per second, Max restore bytes per second, etc. As I read the documentation/google, they don't suggest to use it, nothing mentioned when to use them, so I'm kind of confused.

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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 9, 2022, 12:58pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/snapshots-compression/306932/4 "2022-07-09T12:58:51Z")

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