# It doesn't make sense to make snapshots while restoring

**URL:** <https://kopia.discourse.group/t/it-doesnt-make-sense-to-make-snapshots-while-restoring/1169>\
**Category:** Support\
**Created:** [May 30, 2022, 8:35am UTC](https://kopia.discourse.group/t/it-doesnt-make-sense-to-make-snapshots-while-restoring/1169 "2022-05-30T08:35:25Z")\
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**Author:** ![Dzwiedziu](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/kopia.discourse.group/dzwiedziu/32/383_2.png) [@Dzwiedziu](https://kopia.discourse.group/u/Dzwiedziu)\
**Post date:** [May 30, 2022, 8:35am UTC](https://kopia.discourse.group/t/it-doesnt-make-sense-to-make-snapshots-while-restoring/1169/1 "2022-05-30T08:35:25Z")

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I have a policy of hourly snapshots and a restore running fir 9 hours now. So I have 10 snapshots, each one bigger, that “document” the process.

Is there a way to disable snapshotting while restoring? For me those snapshots are useless and waste space (one big delta and n-smaller ones that “revert” the big one) and retention policy.

Edit: also `kopia-ui` probably interpreted `~` literally so I’ve ended up restoring all my files to `~/~`.