Only metadata are compressed.

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> Le 18 sept. 2014 à 15:36, "Tomcsányi, Domonkos" <[email protected]> a écrit 
> :
> 
> Hi Everyone,
> 
> I just started experimenting with the cool snapshot feature of ES (using ES 
> 1.3.2 on Ubuntu 14.04) using curator. I created a new repository on a mounted 
> NFS storage, using only the default options (compression turned on). I 
> checked it using curl:
> 
> user@myserver:~# curl -XGET 'http://IP_ADDRESS:9200/_snapshot/logBack?pretty'
> {
>  "logBack" : {
>    "type" : "fs",
>    "settings" : {
>      "compress" : "true",
>      "location" : "/es_snapshots"
>    }
>  }
> }
> 
> So, after that I used curator to create a snapshot of some older indices. The 
> process finished after some minutes, so I decided to have a look at the files 
> it created. It turned out that the snapshot's files take up exactly as much 
> space as the indices did originally while they were in the cluster, so no 
> compression happened at all. This is kind of a problem for me, because I 
> assumed that compression will greatly reduce the size of the indices I put in 
> a snapshot. So is there anything I'm doing wrong?
> 
> Thank you,
> Domonkos
> 
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