# How to Stop Deletion of a Specific Index? **URL:** \ **Category:** Elasticsearch\ **Created:** [November 29, 2022, 10:38am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-stop-deletion-of-a-specific-index/320032 "2022-11-29T10:38:04Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Jdman647](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/db5fbb/32.png) [@Jdman647](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Jdman647)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2022, 10:38am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-stop-deletion-of-a-specific-index/320032/1 "2022-11-29T10:38:04Z")
Hello, Using Securityonion's 'advanced clustering' which means us managing it's cluster. Our delete time is set to 15 days for our so-\* indices. If I want to stop specific index: so-zeek-11232022 from being deleted after 15 days, how would I do that. My only solution that I know how to do, is set the deletion times to super long, then just manually delete and manage the indices. Any advice? Thank you ---
**Author:** ![warkolm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/warkolm/32/39224_2.png) [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2022, 12:58am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-stop-deletion-of-a-specific-index/320032/2 "2022-11-30T00:58:45Z")
Welcome to our community! 😃 There's no way to exclude an index that is part of an ILM policy. You could clone the index to a new name to keep it though. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2022, 12:59am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-stop-deletion-of-a-specific-index/320032/3 "2022-12-28T00:59:23Z")
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