# Archiving old records in elastic search

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/archiving-old-records-in-elastic-search/51285>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [May 30, 2016, 8:10am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/archiving-old-records-in-elastic-search/51285 "2016-05-30T08:10:35Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 7\
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**Author:** ![akhilkumars](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ba8739/32.png) [@akhilkumars](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/akhilkumars)\
**Post date:** [May 30, 2016, 8:10am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/archiving-old-records-in-elastic-search/51285/1 "2016-05-30T08:10:35Z")

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Hi ,

I am new to elastic search. I am using elastic search to persist order related data. My requirement is archive all **completed** orders after a certain period of time. For example if an ecomm order is completed, I want to archive those completed orders after 7 days. Is there any built in mechanism for Elastic search to support this? This is a conditional archiving. All order related data are present in one index. I mean i have only one index to keep order related data.

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**Author:** ![warkolm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/warkolm/32/39224_2.png) [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)\
**Post date:** [May 30, 2016, 9:54am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/archiving-old-records-in-elastic-search/51285/2 "2016-05-30T09:54:09Z")

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Archive it how, to what?

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**Author:** ![akhilkumars](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ba8739/32.png) [@akhilkumars](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/akhilkumars)\
**Post date:** [May 31, 2016, 11:49am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/archiving-old-records-in-elastic-search/51285/3 "2016-05-31T11:49:22Z")

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Archive to a new index.

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**Author:** ![warkolm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/warkolm/32/39224_2.png) [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)\
**Post date:** [June 1, 2016, 12:27am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/archiving-old-records-in-elastic-search/51285/4 "2016-06-01T00:27:07Z")

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Why? Use time based indices instead.

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**Author:** ![akhilkumars](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ba8739/32.png) [@akhilkumars](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/akhilkumars)\
**Post date:** [June 1, 2016, 4:07am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/archiving-old-records-in-elastic-search/51285/5 "2016-06-01T04:07:19Z")

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The problem is I am using elastic search to persist order related data of entire ecom site. I have only one index. As I described earlier, I need to archive only orders which are completed(archiving based on condition).

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**Author:** ![warkolm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/warkolm/32/39224_2.png) [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)\
**Post date:** [June 1, 2016, 4:10am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/archiving-old-records-in-elastic-search/51285/6 "2016-06-01T04:10:06Z")

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You would have to build this yourself, ES doesn't provide this level of functionality.

I'd still use time based indices, then store each transaction as a record.

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [July 5, 2017, 10:47pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/archiving-old-records-in-elastic-search/51285/7 "2017-07-05T22:47:27Z")

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