I'm investigating snapshots and came across some things that aren't clear in the docs.
My understanding is that the snapshots are incremental and only transfer things that were changed since the last snapshot. (Is that shards, lucene stuff, something else ???) One thing that isn't clear is if I create the following ....:9200/_snapshot/es_snapshots/snap_yesterday ....:9200/_snapshot/es_snapshots/snap_today Can I restore snap_yesterday to get that state back OR snap_today for today's snapshot? I read in the groups that a new snapshot would replace the change things .... That also leads to the question of how to manage the snapshots. Is there some cleaning I need to (or can) do. If so, then how can I ensure that the state of a snapshot is usable if I delete older ones. Lastly I was thinking about the idea of multiple snapshots. So in the examples above I might replace the es_snapshots with a date such as: ....:9200/_snapshot/<yesterday>/snap_1 ....:9200/_snapshot/<yesterday>/snap_2 ....:9200/_snapshot/<today>/snap_1 ....:9200/_snapshot/<today>/snap_2 Then I could delete <yesterday> at some point (or "older than X days"). Are there any thoughts around that or am I really misunderstanding things? \@matthias -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "elasticsearch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to elasticsearch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/914c2aa7-cfc0-4311-8de3-adf010a54363%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
