# ES 0.90, disable\_delete\_all\_indices

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/es-0-90-disable-delete-all-indices/606>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [May 13, 2015, 10:52am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/es-0-90-disable-delete-all-indices/606 "2015-05-13T10:52:25Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![Norberto\_Meijome](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ed655f/32.png) [@Norberto\_Meijome](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Norberto_Meijome)\
**Post date:** [May 13, 2015, 10:52am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/es-0-90-disable-delete-all-indices/606/1 "2015-05-13T10:52:25Z")

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Hi everyone,

I have the following snippet in my elasticsearch.yaml

action:  
disable\_delete\_all\_indices: true

1. is there a way to apply this via the API without restarting the node ? I couldn't find any reference to this and a few attempts didn't come back with anythign useful

2. Is this a per-node setting, or a cluster wide setting? do i need to restart/apply against each node, or once set in any, will it work ?

cheers,  
B

PS : Yes, I know 0.90 is an old version 🙂

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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 13, 2015, 10:46pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/es-0-90-disable-delete-all-indices/606/2 "2015-05-13T22:46:15Z")

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[http://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/0.90/indices-delete-index.html](http://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/0.90/indices-delete-index.html) mentions putting this in elasticsearch.yml;  
`action.disable_delete_all_indices: true`

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**Author:** ![Norberto\_Meijome](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ed655f/32.png) [@Norberto\_Meijome](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Norberto_Meijome)\
**Post date:** [May 14, 2015, 12:38am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/es-0-90-disable-delete-all-indices/606/3 "2015-05-14T00:38:35Z")

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Hi Mark,  
yeah, i was hoping this could be changed without having to restart the  
service.

thanks for checking anyway 🙂

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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 6, 2017, 12:14am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/es-0-90-disable-delete-all-indices/606/4 "2017-07-06T00:14:11Z")

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