# Is that possible to consolidating snapshot?
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-that-possible-to-consolidating-snapshot/57524
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [August 8, 2016, 7:48pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-that-possible-to-consolidating-snapshot/57524 "2016-08-08T19:48:07Z")
**Posts on this page:** 6
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### Author:  [@DravenJohnson](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/DravenJohnson)
#### Post date: [August 8, 2016, 7:48pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-that-possible-to-consolidating-snapshot/57524/1 "2016-08-08T19:48:07Z")
We have daily snapshot everyday for ONLY the day's data indices. We would like to merge/combine daily snapshot into a large monthly snapshot every month without delete and retake snapshot.
Is that possible to do it??
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Will a new monthly (incremental) snapshot keep all indices even if we delete old daily snapshot?
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### Author:  [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)
#### Post date: [August 9, 2016, 1:58am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-that-possible-to-consolidating-snapshot/57524/2 "2016-08-09T01:58:00Z")
> [@DravenJohnson](#):
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> Is that possible to do it??
No, you need to take a monthly one.
> [@DravenJohnson](#):
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> Will a new monthly (incremental) snapshot keep all indices even if we delete old daily snapshot?
Yes.
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### Author:  [@DravenJohnson](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/DravenJohnson)
#### Post date: [August 10, 2016, 6:43pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-that-possible-to-consolidating-snapshot/57524/3 "2016-08-10T18:43:50Z")
Thanks, as long as deletion of daily snapshot will not affect those monthly snapshot which suppose be incrementally and use some indice data from daily one. it is good. We can just do this as a clean up.
Thanks for the answer
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### Author:  [@DravenJohnson](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/DravenJohnson)
#### Post date: [October 12, 2016, 7:40pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-that-possible-to-consolidating-snapshot/57524/4 "2016-10-12T19:40:09Z")
Just want to double check this:
It's not possible to delete "daily snapshot" by using wildcard like 2016.09.\* right?
(All snapshot name are based on the date and/or month when it took)
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### Author:  [@ywelsch](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ywelsch)
#### Post date: [October 12, 2016, 8:36pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-that-possible-to-consolidating-snapshot/57524/5 "2016-10-12T20:36:26Z")
> [@DravenJohnson](#):
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> It's not possible to delete "daily snapshot" by using wildcard like 2016.09.\* right?
No, that's not possible right now - might be a neat feature though. Would you like to contribute a PR?
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 5, 2017, 10:12pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-that-possible-to-consolidating-snapshot/57524/6 "2017-07-05T22:12:53Z")