# How to programmatically cancel a running snapshot on Elastic Cloud
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-programmatically-cancel-a-running-snapshot-on-elastic-cloud/154220
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [October 26, 2018, 2:42pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-programmatically-cancel-a-running-snapshot-on-elastic-cloud/154220 "2018-10-26T14:42:56Z")
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### Author:  [@mrubin](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/mrubin)
#### Post date: [October 26, 2018, 2:42pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-programmatically-cancel-a-running-snapshot-on-elastic-cloud/154220/1 "2018-10-26T14:42:56Z")
I have cron jobs configured which delete old indices. I just noticed that some of these curl commands are failing with the below message:
> "Cannot delete indices that are being snapshotted: [[...]]. Try again after snapshot finishes or cancel the currently running snapshot."
How can I cancel any currently-running snapshots so that my index deletion can go through? This is on Elastic Cloud.
Thank you
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### Author:  [@mrubin](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/mrubin)
#### Post date: [October 30, 2018, 3:33pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-programmatically-cancel-a-running-snapshot-on-elastic-cloud/154220/2 "2018-10-30T15:33:55Z")
_Bump_
Thank you
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [November 27, 2018, 3:33pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-programmatically-cancel-a-running-snapshot-on-elastic-cloud/154220/3 "2018-11-27T15:33:56Z")
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