# Kibana snapshot and restore policies - how to set snapshot retention, meaning how long to keep specific snapshots

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-snapshot-and-restore-policies-how-to-set-snapshot-retention-meaning-how-long-to-keep-specific-snapshots/208717>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [November 20, 2019, 2:37pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-snapshot-and-restore-policies-how-to-set-snapshot-retention-meaning-how-long-to-keep-specific-snapshots/208717 "2019-11-20T14:37:02Z")\
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**Author:** ![raulk89](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/2bfe46/32.png) [@raulk89](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/raulk89)\
**Post date:** [November 20, 2019, 2:37pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-snapshot-and-restore-policies-how-to-set-snapshot-retention-meaning-how-long-to-keep-specific-snapshots/208717/1 "2019-11-20T14:37:02Z")

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Hi

Elastic and kibana 7.4.2

There is this feature in kibana, that I can create snapshot policies to automatically back up my cluster.

My question is, how the old snapshots are getting deleted automatically and how can I set the retention for that..?  
At the moment, there seems no way to achieve this.

Raul

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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:** [December 18, 2019, 2:37pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-snapshot-and-restore-policies-how-to-set-snapshot-retention-meaning-how-long-to-keep-specific-snapshots/208717/2 "2019-12-18T14:37:10Z")

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