# Prevent curator to delete certain indices
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/prevent-curator-to-delete-certain-indices/99379
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [September 5, 2017, 7:05am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/prevent-curator-to-delete-certain-indices/99379 "2017-09-05T07:05:38Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author:  [@tyyko](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/tyyko)
#### Post date: [September 5, 2017, 7:05am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/prevent-curator-to-delete-certain-indices/99379/1 "2017-09-05T07:05:39Z")
Hello all,
we are using the curator to rotate logs ( curator delete indices --older-than XX ) but I was wondering if we could 'lock' certain indices from the automated deletion to allow RCA of an outage without risking to lose them due to the rotation.
Increasing the rotation period is not a nice option as it would increase too much the overall size of the cluster.
Thanks and regards,
Michael
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### Author:  [@Shaoranlaos](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Shaoranlaos)
#### Post date: [September 5, 2017, 8:14am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/prevent-curator-to-delete-certain-indices/99379/2 "2017-09-05T08:14:58Z")
you can exclude certain indices from the delete action e.g.:
```
- filtertype: pattern
kind: regex
value: ''
exclude: True
```
the regex could be something like "^elk|syslog"
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### Author:  [@tyyko](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/tyyko)
#### Post date: [September 5, 2017, 2:09pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/prevent-curator-to-delete-certain-indices/99379/3 "2017-09-05T14:09:28Z")
Thanks for your quick reply!
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [October 3, 2017, 2:09pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/prevent-curator-to-delete-certain-indices/99379/4 "2017-10-03T14:09:44Z")
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