How retain certain index for more time than the other?

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I'm on Elasticsearch 6.4, I have 4 indexes out of which for 2 I need to set the retention period to be 60 days, how do I set that?

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Have you looked at ILM?

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Yes, but its not available in 6.4 I guess not seen anything related to ILM in 6.4 docs. It got introduced in 6.8.

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Ah ok, can you upgrade?

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Are you using time-based indices or will you need to delete specific documents from within the indices?

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I’m planning to upgrade but in the upgrade process I might need to delete or reindex all my indexes and I’m trying to avoid that by saving some indexes.

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I’m using time based indexes, everyday it generates new index, basically pattern is <index_name>-mm-dd-yyyy

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We create index everyday, the basic pattern is like: index_name-yyyy-mm-dd.We write some shell scripts to implement the index lifecycle management, for example:create snapshot for indices everyday 、periodically delete index that have been backed up successfully.Maybe you can try !

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