# Is it possible to remove the UUID appended by SLM policies to snapshot names?

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-it-possible-to-remove-the-uuid-appended-by-slm-policies-to-snapshot-names/323172>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Tags:** slm-snapshot-lifecycle-management\
**Created:** [January 14, 2023, 4:21am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-it-possible-to-remove-the-uuid-appended-by-slm-policies-to-snapshot-names/323172 "2023-01-14T04:21:09Z")\
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**Author:** ![nvnsv](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/nvnsv/32/115932_2.png) [@nvnsv](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/nvnsv)\
**Post date:** [January 14, 2023, 4:21am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-it-possible-to-remove-the-uuid-appended-by-slm-policies-to-snapshot-names/323172/1 "2023-01-14T04:21:09Z")

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Hello!

I was able to get SLM implemented however, I saw that there is a UUID appended to each snapshot name. Is it possible to remove that UUID? my policy runs every four hours and its named to be exact to the second `<snapshot_name-{now/d{yyyymmddhhmmss}}>` so I dont have any concerns of naming conflicts. The [documentation](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/slm-api-put-policy.html#slm-api-put-request-body) that I read so far didn't say if this was possible or not so thought I'd ask here.

Thx!

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [February 11, 2023, 4:21am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-it-possible-to-remove-the-uuid-appended-by-slm-policies-to-snapshot-names/323172/2 "2023-02-11T04:21:19Z")

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