# Automatic snapshot delete on Elasticsearch 2.4

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/automatic-snapshot-delete-on-elasticsearch-2-4/251273>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [October 7, 2020, 1:04pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/automatic-snapshot-delete-on-elasticsearch-2-4/251273 "2020-10-07T13:04:43Z")\
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**Author:** ![Silas-91](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/silas-91/32/76806_2.png) [@Silas-91](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Silas-91)\
**Post date:** [October 7, 2020, 1:04pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/automatic-snapshot-delete-on-elasticsearch-2-4/251273/1 "2020-10-07T13:04:43Z")

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Hello together,

i´am new to elasticsearch and i have some question about version 2.4.  
We take snapshots every day but now there are so many that we have to delete them. I don´t want to delete them one by one. So does anyone know a workflow to delete snapshots who are older than 90 days? Here is our date convention : "date +%Y%m%d-%H%M%S".

Thanks for your help.

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**Author:** ![Christian\_Dahlqvist](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/christian_dahlqvist/32/4617_2.png) [@Christian\_Dahlqvist](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Christian_Dahlqvist)\
**Post date:** [October 7, 2020, 1:25pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/automatic-snapshot-delete-on-elasticsearch-2-4/251273/2 "2020-10-07T13:25:23Z")

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As far as I know the only way is to delete them one by one.

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**Author:** ![Silas-91](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/silas-91/32/76806_2.png) [@Silas-91](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Silas-91)\
**Post date:** [October 9, 2020, 11:42am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/automatic-snapshot-delete-on-elasticsearch-2-4/251273/3 "2020-10-09T11:42:45Z")

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Thanks for your help.  
I hope someone else knows another possibility.

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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:** [November 6, 2020, 11:43am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/automatic-snapshot-delete-on-elasticsearch-2-4/251273/4 "2020-11-06T11:43:05Z")

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