# Setup to create daily snapshots and purge old snapshots **URL:** \ **Category:** Elasticsearch\ **Created:** [March 14, 2017, 5:44am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/setup-to-create-daily-snapshots-and-purge-old-snapshots/78445 "2017-03-14T05:44:25Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![ywtsang](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/a698b9/32.png) [@ywtsang](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ywtsang)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2017, 5:44am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/setup-to-create-daily-snapshots-and-purge-old-snapshots/78445/1 "2017-03-14T05:44:25Z")
I am successfully to create snapshots at s3 and restore the snapshots to use. Here is the cron I have setup: es 5.2/curator4.2 0 0 \* \* \* curator\_cli --host snapshot --repository s3\_repo --wait\_for\_completion true 0 1 \* \* \* curator\_cli --host delete\_snapshots --repository s3\_repo --filter\_list '[{"filtertype":"age","source":"creation\_date","direction":"older","unit":"days","unit\_count":5}]' It is checked that the snapshots are created daily and old snapshots are removed. So I want to ask if the "remove old snapshot" cron run after the daily snapshot , will it be a problem if I restore from the latest snapshot? Will there be any data lost ? As I know the snapshots are created incrementally. ---
**Author:** ![warkolm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/warkolm/32/39224_2.png) [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2017, 6:33pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/setup-to-create-daily-snapshots-and-purge-old-snapshots/78445/2 "2017-03-14T18:33:37Z")
Snapshots are incremental as you note. If you delete one from 2 days ago, ES will keep any segments it needs to make sure it can still restore the one from today. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2017, 6:33pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/setup-to-create-daily-snapshots-and-purge-old-snapshots/78445/3 "2017-04-11T18:33:51Z")
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