Best practice to delete old Snapshots on Elasticsearch 2.4

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Hi all,

does anyone know the best way to delete the old snapshots at elasticsearch 2.4.
And what will happen if I delete a snapshot from 5 days ago? These are incremental snapshots. How do they behave when restoring?

Thanks

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Use the DELETE Snapshots API.

That's fine. Backups are incremental behind the scene but you can consider them as a full backup. So you can remove whatever snapshot you want. Elasticsearch will always keep the needed files around.

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