From a6d7179286bc60d548df90c8546ff1798ca015a2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Aliaksandr Valialkin <valyala@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 27 Nov 2019 19:56:57 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] README.md: remove the unnecessary step during restoring from
 backups

---
 README.md | 5 ++---
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 7887fa1d0..e51ff50a2 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -476,10 +476,9 @@ Navigate to `http://<victoriametrics-addr>:8428/snapshot/delete_all` in order to
 
 Steps for restoring from a snapshot:
 1. Stop VictoriaMetrics with `kill -INT`.
-2. Remove the entire contents of the directory pointed by `-storageDataPath` command-line flag.
-3. Restore snapshot contents from backup with [vmrestore](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/blob/master/app/vmrestore/README.md)
+2. Restore snapshot contents from backup with [vmrestore](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/blob/master/app/vmrestore/README.md)
    to the directory pointed by `-storageDataPath`.
-4. Start VictoriaMetrics.
+3. Start VictoriaMetrics.
 
 
 ### How to delete time series?