# Live data still persists after rollup

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/live-data-still-persists-after-rollup/212051>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [December 16, 2019, 7:33pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/live-data-still-persists-after-rollup/212051 "2019-12-16T19:33:42Z")\
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**Author:** ![mcguacon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/958977/32.png) [@mcguacon](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/mcguacon)\
**Post date:** [December 16, 2019, 7:33pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/live-data-still-persists-after-rollup/212051/1 "2019-12-16T19:33:42Z")

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I am rolling creating a rollup index with a 7d delay. The live index I am rolling up from has been around for months. The job has been running fine, but as the rolledup index is written to, I am expecting data that is older than 7 days in the original index to "disappear". Am I incorrect in that assumption?

We are also using ILM to delete old data, but this is set at 60 days.

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**Author:** ![Marius\_Dragomir](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/marius_dragomir/32/42087_2.png) [@Marius\_Dragomir](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Marius_Dragomir)\
**Post date:** [December 20, 2019, 12:54pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/live-data-still-persists-after-rollup/212051/2 "2019-12-20T12:54:16Z")

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Rollups shouldn't delete data, as it's meant as a non-destructive process. So the ILM is the only thing used to delete data.

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**Author:** ![mcguacon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/958977/32.png) [@mcguacon](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/mcguacon)\
**Post date:** [December 23, 2019, 7:27pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/live-data-still-persists-after-rollup/212051/3 "2019-12-23T19:27:57Z")

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Thank you. Has this policy changed in the recent past, like last year or so?

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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:** [January 20, 2020, 7:31pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/live-data-still-persists-after-rollup/212051/4 "2020-01-20T19:31:15Z")

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