# Snapshot and date
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/snapshot-and-date/186911
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [June 21, 2019, 4:25pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/snapshot-and-date/186911 "2019-06-21T16:25:53Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author:  [@He\_Pamela](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/He_Pamela)
#### Post date: [June 21, 2019, 4:25pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/snapshot-and-date/186911/1 "2019-06-21T16:25:53Z")
Hi,
Can I make a Snapshot with a specific date? In my case I just want a snapshot with the last year data. Is it possible?
Thanks.
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### Author:  [@dadoonet](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dadoonet)
#### Post date: [June 21, 2019, 5:06pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/snapshot-and-date/186911/2 "2019-06-21T17:06:45Z")
Unless you have time based indices it's not possible.
You have to use the reindex API to select the data you want and then store them within a new index which you can then snapshot.
Why do you want to do that BTW and not snapshot everything?
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### Author:  [@He\_Pamela](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/He_Pamela)
#### Post date: [June 21, 2019, 9:24pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/snapshot-and-date/186911/3 "2019-06-21T21:24:40Z")
Yes, my indices are time based.
I want to make this because the reindex API doesn´t work when one instance has security and the other instance doesn't have.
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### Author:  [@dadoonet](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dadoonet)
#### Post date: [June 22, 2019, 2:51am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/snapshot-and-date/186911/4 "2019-06-22T02:51:53Z")
> [@He\_Pamela](#):
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> I want to make this because the reindex API doesn´t work when one instance has security and the other instance doesn't have.
I don't understand what the problem is. What "doesn't work" means here? What kind of error message did you get? On which versions?
> [@He\_Pamela](#):
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> Yes, my indices are time based.
So you can probably able to select the indices you want based on the name like `foo-2019-*` or use [date math](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/date-math-index-names.html).
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 20, 2019, 2:52am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/snapshot-and-date/186911/5 "2019-07-20T02:52:08Z")
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