# Why my snapshot produced many folders for only one snapshots?

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/why-my-snapshot-produced-many-folders-for-only-one-snapshots/300958>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Tags:** snapshot-and-restore\
**Created:** [March 29, 2022, 11:51am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/why-my-snapshot-produced-many-folders-for-only-one-snapshots/300958 "2022-03-29T11:51:42Z")\
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**Author:** ![renatoa12](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/edb3f5/32.png) [@renatoa12](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/renatoa12)\
**Post date:** [March 29, 2022, 11:51am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/why-my-snapshot-produced-many-folders-for-only-one-snapshots/300958/1 "2022-03-29T11:51:43Z")

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Why my snapshot produced many folders for only one snapshots??

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/c/3/c3fe1a101bb8bc81f409e8f71571afa1933688b6.png)  
 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/4/141b5f793b8a8370ee31b8d194dd384767fc5e31.png)

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**Author:** ![warkolm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/warkolm/32/39224_2.png) [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)\
**Post date:** [March 29, 2022, 10:31pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/why-my-snapshot-produced-many-folders-for-only-one-snapshots/300958/2 "2022-03-29T22:31:20Z")

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Because there is more than one index that has been backed up.

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**Author:** ![renatoa12](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/edb3f5/32.png) [@renatoa12](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/renatoa12)\
**Post date:** [March 30, 2022, 12:59pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/why-my-snapshot-produced-many-folders-for-only-one-snapshots/300958/3 "2022-03-30T12:59:13Z")

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hi @warkolm thanks for the reply, but in my index management i only have one index at that time. How can i fix this sir?

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**Author:** ![warkolm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/warkolm/32/39224_2.png) [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)\
**Post date:** [March 30, 2022, 9:59pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/why-my-snapshot-produced-many-folders-for-only-one-snapshots/300958/4 "2022-03-30T21:59:12Z")

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In your screenshot, you can see there's 9 indices that have been backed up.

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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:** [April 27, 2022, 9:59pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/why-my-snapshot-produced-many-folders-for-only-one-snapshots/300958/5 "2022-04-27T21:59:41Z")

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