# How do you run snapshots? **URL:** \ **Category:** Elasticsearch\ **Created:** [July 2, 2015, 11:35am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-do-you-run-snapshots/24792 "2015-07-02T11:35:54Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Cooker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/dec6dc/32.png) [@Cooker](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Cooker)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2015, 11:35am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-do-you-run-snapshots/24792/1 "2015-07-02T11:35:54Z")
I have setup a mountpoint and snapshot repository and I am manually running snapshots with curl at the moment. It is all working fine. I would love to get some cron jobs and maybe a web interface setup for managing the snapshots but as ever I expect someone will have already done this and likely in a better way than I would myself. If someone knows of some great plugins or scripts out there that they or others have created and can share with me that would be great! ---
**Author:** ![theuntergeek](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/theuntergeek/32/44961_2.png) [@theuntergeek](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/theuntergeek)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2015, 12:39pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-do-you-run-snapshots/24792/2 "2015-07-02T12:39:47Z")
There's always Curator: [https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/client/curator/current/snapshot.html](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/client/curator/current/snapshot.html) ---
**Author:** ![Cooker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/dec6dc/32.png) [@Cooker](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Cooker)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2015, 12:41pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-do-you-run-snapshots/24792/3 "2015-07-03T12:41:26Z")
That's great, for some reason I didn't think curator could manipulate snapshots. I have added this to my daily curator cron job: # Snapshot curator snapshot --repository logstash curator snapshots delete --older-than 60 ---
**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, 12:03am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-do-you-run-snapshots/24792/4 "2017-07-06T00:03:45Z")