# Creating snapshot for a particular period. ( ex: 1-1-2017 to 31-12-2017)
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/creating-snapshot-for-a-particular-period-ex-1-1-2017-to-31-12-2017/116837
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [January 24, 2018, 9:54am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/creating-snapshot-for-a-particular-period-ex-1-1-2017-to-31-12-2017/116837 "2018-01-24T09:54:18Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
**Page:** 1
### Author:  [@sanjayap\_sanju](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/sanjayap_sanju)
#### Post date: [January 24, 2018, 9:54am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/creating-snapshot-for-a-particular-period-ex-1-1-2017-to-31-12-2017/116837/1 "2018-01-24T09:54:19Z")
Hi i am new to elasticsearch, was working on snapshot and restore of index. I was able to successfully take a snapshot and restore the entire index using the below query
PUT \_snapshot/testindex\_backup/16jan18
{
"indicies" : "testindex",
"ignore\_unavailable" : "true",
"include\_global\_state" : "false"
}
But how can we take a snapshot of index with specific date
Scenario ; A index has data of 3 Years( i.e., 1-1-2015 to 31-12-2017 ), I want to take a snapshot of 1 year ( i.e., 1-1-2017 to 31-12-2017)
Could you help me with a query for a snapshot.
Thanks in advance
---
### Author:  [@dadoonet](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dadoonet)
#### Post date: [January 24, 2018, 10:09am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/creating-snapshot-for-a-particular-period-ex-1-1-2017-to-31-12-2017/116837/2 "2018-01-24T10:09:14Z")
You can't do that. Snapshot and Restore is about a whole index whatever the data you have inside.
But you can use the reindex API to index in another index, like `index-2017` and then snapshot this index.
---
### Author:  [@sanjayap\_sanju](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/sanjayap_sanju)
#### Post date: [January 25, 2018, 7:36am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/creating-snapshot-for-a-particular-period-ex-1-1-2017-to-31-12-2017/116837/3 "2018-01-25T07:36:33Z")
Thanks for your response. In this case will reindex API give the exact 1 year data (i.e., 2017) out of 3 years of snapshot data(i.e., 2015 - 2017). Below the query we have used for reindexing the data from snapshot data(ticketanalysis) and reindexed to (new\_ticketanalysis).
```
POST _reindex
{
"source": {
"index": "ticketanalysis",
"type": "fs",
"query": {
"range" : {
"@timestamp" : {
"gte": "01/01/2017",
"lte": "01/31/2017",
"format": "MM/dd/yyyy||yyyy"
}
}
}
},
"dest": {
"index": "new_ticketanalysis"
}
}
```
This is the output we got
```
{
"took": 2,
"timed_out": false,
"total": 0,
"updated": 0,
"created": 0,
"deleted": 0,
"batches": 0,
"version_conflicts": 0,
"noops": 0,
"retries": {
"bulk": 0,
"search": 0
},
"throttled_millis": 0,
"requests_per_second": -1,
"throttled_until_millis": 0,
"failures": []
}
```
Please suggest if any query modification is required.
---
### Author:  [@dadoonet](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dadoonet)
#### Post date: [January 25, 2018, 9:08am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/creating-snapshot-for-a-particular-period-ex-1-1-2017-to-31-12-2017/116837/4 "2018-01-25T09:08:23Z")
What is the output of:
```auto
GET ticketanalysis/fs/_search
{
"size": 0,
"query": {
"range" : {
"@timestamp" : {
"gte": "01/01/2017",
"lte": "01/31/2017",
"format": "MM/dd/yyyy||yyyy"
}
}
}
}
```
If you are getting back no data, then you need to fix your query.
Have a look at the mapping, try to reproduce with an example...
---
### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [February 22, 2018, 9:08am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/creating-snapshot-for-a-particular-period-ex-1-1-2017-to-31-12-2017/116837/5 "2018-02-22T09:08:33Z")
This topic was automatically closed 28 days after the last reply. New replies are no longer allowed.