# How to provide name to the snapshot using curator
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-provide-name-to-the-snapshot-using-curator/25508
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [July 14, 2015, 9:48am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-provide-name-to-the-snapshot-using-curator/25508 "2015-07-14T09:48:37Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author:  [@vikas\_gopal](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/vikas_gopal)
#### Post date: [July 14, 2015, 9:48am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-provide-name-to-the-snapshot-using-curator/25508/1 "2015-07-14T09:48:37Z")
Hi Experts,
I am using Curator to take backup of indices. I am able to create snapshot using following command . Now I want to mention a name to this snapshot .
**curator --host localhost --port 9200 --http\_auth admin:XXXX snapshot --repository god indices --prefix tot**
With this command it takes snapshot of the index starts with **tot** and it creates snapshot with the default name like **"snapshot-curator-20150714094001"**. I want to give my customized name .Please suggest how I can achieve this ?
Thanks
Vikas
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### Author:  [@vikas\_gopal](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/vikas_gopal)
#### Post date: [July 14, 2015, 10:01am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-provide-name-to-the-snapshot-using-curator/25508/2 "2015-07-14T10:01:25Z")
I cracked it, so to provide name we need to use --name option . Something like
**curator --host localhost --port 9200 --http\_auth admin:XXXX snapshot --name myindex --repository god indices --prefix tot**
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 6, 2017, 12:01am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-provide-name-to-the-snapshot-using-curator/25508/3 "2017-07-06T00:01:36Z")