diff --git a/solr/CHANGES.txt b/solr/CHANGES.txt
index 84e37245775..6508d4b0a81 100644
--- a/solr/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/solr/CHANGES.txt
@@ -622,6 +622,9 @@ Bug Fixes
 
 * SOLR-2909: Add support for ResourceLoaderAware tokenizerFactories in synonym
   filter factories. (Tom Klonikowski, Jun Ohtani via Koji Sekiguchi)
+  
+* SOLR-3168: ReplicationHandler "numberToKeep" & "maxNumberOfBackups" parameters
+  would keep only 1 backup, even if more than 1 was specified (Neil Hooey, James Dyer)
 
 Other Changes
 ----------------------
diff --git a/solr/core/src/java/org/apache/solr/handler/SnapShooter.java b/solr/core/src/java/org/apache/solr/handler/SnapShooter.java
index bbfd63fb4a9..e0415a8f9ab 100644
--- a/solr/core/src/java/org/apache/solr/handler/SnapShooter.java
+++ b/solr/core/src/java/org/apache/solr/handler/SnapShooter.java
@@ -135,7 +135,7 @@ public class SnapShooter {
     Collections.sort(dirs);
     int i=1;
     for(OldBackupDirectory dir : dirs) {
-      if( i > numberToKeep-1 ) {
+      if( i++ > numberToKeep-1 ) {
         SnapPuller.delTree(dir.dir);
       }
     }