# What is difference between indices snapshot and cluster snapshot?

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/what-is-difference-between-indices-snapshot-and-cluster-snapshot/169887>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Tags:** curator\
**Created:** [February 25, 2019, 5:56pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/what-is-difference-between-indices-snapshot-and-cluster-snapshot/169887 "2019-02-25T17:56:15Z")\
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**Author:** ![163satish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/1/7ab992/32.png) [@163satish](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/163satish)\
**Post date:** [February 25, 2019, 5:56pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/what-is-difference-between-indices-snapshot-and-cluster-snapshot/169887/1 "2019-02-25T17:56:16Z")

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I am working on the curator snapshot and restore feature. Can you please elaborate on how these 2 are different?  
I have used following template to take snapshot:

```
action: snapshot
description: >-
  Snapshot selected indices to 'repository' with the snapshot name or name
  pattern in 'name'. Use all other options as assigned
options:
  repository: ...
  # Leaving name blank will result in the default 'curator-%Y%m%d%H%M%S'
  name:
  wait_for_completion: True
  max_wait: 3600
  wait_interval: 10
filters:
- filtertype: ...

```

Let me know how to differentiate based on this template.

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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 25, 2019, 5:56pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/what-is-difference-between-indices-snapshot-and-cluster-snapshot/169887/2 "2019-03-25T17:56:16Z")

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