Note that full storage snapshots are not for distributed mode

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timvisee
2024-04-22 10:09:44 +02:00
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@@ -360,7 +360,9 @@ curl -X POST 'http://qdrant-node-1:6333/collections/{collection_name}/snapshots/
Sometimes it might be handy to create snapshot not just for a single collection, but for the whole storage, including collection aliases.
Qdrant provides a dedicated API for that as well. It is similar to collection-level snapshots, but does not require `collection_name`.
<aside role="status">Whole storage snapshots can be created and downloaded from Qdrant Cloud, but you cannot restore a Qdrant Cloud cluster from a whole storage snapshot since that requires use of the Qdrant CLI. You can use <a href="/documentation/cloud/backups/">Backups</a> instead.</aside>
<aside role="alert">Full storage snapshots are only suitable for single node deployments. Distributed mode is not supported as it doesn't contain the necessary files for that.</aside>
<aside role="status">Full storage snapshots can be created and downloaded from Qdrant Cloud, but you cannot restore a Qdrant Cloud cluster from a whole storage snapshot since that requires use of the Qdrant CLI. You can use <a href="/documentation/cloud/backups/">Backups</a> instead.</aside>
### Create full storage snapshot