How to automatically delete older snapshot?

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Hi, I'm wondering if there's a way to automate deletion of older snapshots? One of the ways I tried is to run this daily with systemd timer (the date is incremented by a day every day):

DELETE /_snapshot/backup/2019-02-01*

But it returns me this:

{
  "error" : {
    "root_cause" : [
      {
        "type" : "snapshot_missing_exception",
        "reason" : "[backup:snapshot-2019-02-01*] is missing"
      }
    ],
    "type" : "snapshot_missing_exception",
    "reason" : "[backup:2019-02-01*] is missing"
  },
  "status" : 404
}

Is there any other way that you guys recommend? Thanks!

2

Curator can probably help.

And in the future:

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Hi @dadoonet

Is Curator guaranteed to be compatible with latest version of Elasticsearch? The last time I tried Curator, it couldn't delete the old indices after upgrading to the latest Elasticsearch.

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Curator is compatible yes. But here I feel like the issue was more within elasticsearch itself between old and new snapshots whatever the tool you are using to access them (curl or curator).

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OK, thanks! I'll try Curator again.

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