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Today we describe snapshots as "incremental" but their incrementality is rather different beast from e.g. incremental filesystem backups. With traditional backups you take a large and relatively infrequent "full" backup and then a sequence of smaller "incremental" ones, and this whole sequence of backups is required for a restore so it must be kept around until at least the next full backup. In contrast, Elasticsearch snapshots are logically independent and each can be deleted without affecting the integrity of the others. This distinction frequently causes confusion amongst newer users, so this commit clarifies what we mean by "incremental" in the docs. |
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| delete-snapshot.asciidoc | ||
| index.asciidoc | ||
| monitor-snapshot-restore.asciidoc | ||
| register-repository.asciidoc | ||
| restore-snapshot.asciidoc | ||
| take-snapshot.asciidoc | ||