# Not understanding how to rotate with curator: No actionable items in list: \<class 'curator.exceptions.NoIndices'\>

**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/not-understanding-how-to-rotate-with-curator-no-actionable-items-in-list-class-curator-exceptions-noindices/146000
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [August 25, 2018, 7:05am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/not-understanding-how-to-rotate-with-curator-no-actionable-items-in-list-class-curator-exceptions-noindices/146000 "2018-08-25T07:05:30Z")
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### Author: ![abkrim](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/abkrim/32/20217_2.png) [@abkrim](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/abkrim)
#### Post date: [August 25, 2018, 7:05am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/not-understanding-how-to-rotate-with-curator-no-actionable-items-in-list-class-curator-exceptions-noindices/146000/1 "2018-08-25T07:05:30Z")

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I advance in the understanding of Curator but every step by three I get shocked.

First check my repo backups. Ther're 3 snapshots [http://paste.tamainut.info/view/17760692](http://paste.tamainut.info/view/17760692)

Second try excute [http://paste.tamainut.info/view/fd47b33f](http://paste.tamainut.info/view/fd47b33f)

My curator action

```
cat .curator/snap.yml
---
# Remember, leave a key empty if there is no value. None will be a string,
# not a Python "NoneType"
#
# Also remember that all examples have 'disable_action' set to True. If you
# want to use this action as a template, be sure to set this to False after
# copying it.
actions:
  1:
    action: snapshot
    description: >-
      Snapshot logstash- prefixed indices older than 1 day (based on index
      creation_date) with the default snapshot name pattern of
      'curator-%Y%m%d%H%M%S'. Wait for the snapshot to complete. Do not skip
      the repository filesystem access check. Use the other options to create
      the snapshot.
    options:
      repository: excelle_backup
      # Leaving name blank will result in the default 'curator-%Y%m%d%H%M%S'
      name:
      ignore_unavailable: False
      include_global_state: True
      partial: False
      wait_for_completion: True
      skip_repo_fs_check: False
      disable_action: False
    filters:
    - filtertype: pattern
      kind: prefix
      value: logstash-
    - filtertype: age
      source: creation_date
      direction: older
      unit: hours
      unit_count: 3

```

Apreciate help.

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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: [September 22, 2018, 7:05am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/not-understanding-how-to-rotate-with-curator-no-actionable-items-in-list-class-curator-exceptions-noindices/146000/2 "2018-09-22T07:05:33Z")

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