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[DOCS] Remove soft limit for snapshot repositories (#80745) (#80771)
As part of #74350, snapshot repositories no longer have a 200 snapshot soft limit. This removes docs related to the limit. # Conflicts: # docs/reference/slm/apis/slm-put.asciidoc # docs/reference/snapshot-restore/take-snapshot.asciidoc
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@@ -77,6 +77,12 @@ exist prior to the policy's creation. You can create a repository using the
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(Optional, object)
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Retention rules used to retain and delete snapshots created by the policy.
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We recommend you include retention rules in your {slm-init} policy to delete
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snapshots you no longer need. A snapshot repository can safely scale to
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thousands of snapshots. However, to manage its metadata, a large repository
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requires more memory on the master node. Retention rules ensure a repository's
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metadata doesn't grow to a size that could destabilize the master node.
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.Properties of `retention`
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policy retains the most recent snapshots and deletes older snapshots. This limit
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only includes snapshots with a <<get-snapshot-api-response-state,`state`>> of
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`SUCCESS`.
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NOTE: The maximum number of snapshots in a repository should not exceed `200`. This ensures that the snapshot repository metadata does not
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grow to a size which might destabilize the master node. If the `max_count` setting is not set, this limit should be enforced by configuring
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other retention rules such that the repository size does not exceed `200` snapshots.
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`min_count`::
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(Optional, integer)

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