# Filebeat setting for removing harvested files from registry file?
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-setting-for-removing-harvested-files-from-registry-file/274679
**Category:** Beats
**Tags:** filebeat
**Created:** [June 1, 2021, 7:17pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-setting-for-removing-harvested-files-from-registry-file/274679 "2021-06-01T19:17:38Z")
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### Author:  [@Resington\_R](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Resington_R)
#### Post date: [June 1, 2021, 7:17pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-setting-for-removing-harvested-files-from-registry-file/274679/1 "2021-06-01T19:17:38Z")
I am a newbie, I am running Filebeat in my application server, to transfer log files to logstash server. My Application server creates new log files once in every 3 minutes 24x7 (i.e., 480 files per day). These files are once written files, so once harvested these files can be removed from the filebeat registry. I can't use "ignore\_older", because sometimes the application server may not be able to connect logstash server for more than 2 or 3 days. But once connected, these files has to be harvested (transferred to logstash server). What settings I have to use? Can anyone please help me. Thanks in advance..
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [June 29, 2021, 9:18pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-setting-for-removing-harvested-files-from-registry-file/274679/2 "2021-06-29T21:18:14Z")
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