# What all files are to be moved if archiving snapshots to different location

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/what-all-files-are-to-be-moved-if-archiving-snapshots-to-different-location/74987>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [February 14, 2017, 8:42am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/what-all-files-are-to-be-moved-if-archiving-snapshots-to-different-location/74987 "2017-02-14T08:42:00Z")\
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**Author:** ![elasticheart](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/elasticheart/32/65189_2.png) [@elasticheart](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/elasticheart)\
**Post date:** [February 14, 2017, 8:42am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/what-all-files-are-to-be-moved-if-archiving-snapshots-to-different-location/74987/1 "2017-02-14T08:42:00Z")

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Hi,  
I use curator to take snapshots to a folder, which i would like to zip and move to another location. There is a folder named index and some files inside snapshot folder. My plan is to zip index, move to another location, and unzip at the time of restore. Should I zip the index folder alone, or the files (.dat, .latest etc) too??

Thank you.

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**Author:** ![tanguy](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/tanguy/32/6030_2.png) [@tanguy](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/tanguy)\
**Post date:** [February 14, 2017, 10:07am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/what-all-files-are-to-be-moved-if-archiving-snapshots-to-different-location/74987/2 "2017-02-14T10:07:49Z")

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Hi,  
Curator only triggers a snapshot on a registered repository. In your case I suppose you registered a FS repository on elasticsearch.

I you want to move the files, then you should zip the root folder of the FS directory with all files.

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**Author:** ![elasticheart](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/elasticheart/32/65189_2.png) [@elasticheart](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/elasticheart)\
**Post date:** [February 14, 2017, 10:48am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/what-all-files-are-to-be-moved-if-archiving-snapshots-to-different-location/74987/3 "2017-02-14T10:48:15Z")

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Thank you so m much @tanguy

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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:** [March 14, 2017, 10:48am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/what-all-files-are-to-be-moved-if-archiving-snapshots-to-different-location/74987/4 "2017-03-14T10:48:24Z")

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