Backups with Curator

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Hi,

I am doing a monthly backups of indices (backing up everything older than a month to a backup repository) and then deleting those indices from Elasticsearch using Curator snapshot and delete indices actions.

My question is whether there is a way to execute deleting indices action only if snapshot action has completed successfully? I wouldn't want to delete indices from Elasticsearch if snapshot of those has failed. This is running on Windows environment.

Thank you!

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Not yet, but it would be an interesting feature to add as a filter: index exists in named or most recent snapshot, with status SUCCESS.

Would you mind adding that as a feature request at https://github.com/elastic/curator ?

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Based on what I'm reading here you can have curator backup your indexes in step1 (set continue_if_execption: False) and delete your indexes in step2.

I think Curator will raise an exception on a failed snapshot (in step 1) and not execute step 2 (delete).

@theuntergeek you announced this fix here. Am I interpreting it correctly?

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Yes, if using Curator 5.5.3 or later.

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Awesome, thank you!

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