# Backup using disk snapshots

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**Category:** Using FoundationDB\
**Created:** [January 29, 2019, 12:52pm UTC](https://forums.foundationdb.org/t/backup-using-disk-snapshots/1076 "2019-01-29T12:52:43Z")\
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**Post date:** [February 13, 2019, 2:58pm UTC](https://forums.foundationdb.org/t/backup-using-disk-snapshots/1076/9 "2019-02-13T14:58:44Z")

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@bjorndv what version are you on? I am curious because I’m working through some `fdbbackup` issues myself, in particular using expire with the S3 storage on 6.0.16. [Fdbbackup expire with blobstore returning error, not deleting from S3](https://forums.foundationdb.org/t/fdbbackup-expire-with-blobstore-returning-error-not-deleting-from-s3/1131).

I have successfully restored some S3 several times, I ran a restore last night. It took approx. 7hrs but the cluster is healthy.

Data:  
Replication health - Healthy (Rebalancing)  
Moving data - 0.000 GB  
Sum of key-value sizes - 328.358 GB  
Disk space used - 1.742 TB

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