# Snapshot documents older than specific date
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/snapshot-documents-older-than-specific-date/175762
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [April 8, 2019, 6:08am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/snapshot-documents-older-than-specific-date/175762 "2019-04-08T06:08:43Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author:  [@joubeh](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/joubeh)
#### Post date: [April 8, 2019, 6:08am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/snapshot-documents-older-than-specific-date/175762/1 "2019-04-08T06:08:43Z")
Hello,
first of all I'm using ELK 6.4.2 and i was wondering if is it possible to take snapshot for specific documents in the index using date, what I'm trying to do is to take only first 2 weeks of documents from the index to back them up, for example to backup only documents older that 2019-02-01
is there any way to do it?, Thanks in advance.
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### Author:  [@Christian\_Dahlqvist](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Christian_Dahlqvist)
#### Post date: [April 8, 2019, 6:10am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/snapshot-documents-older-than-specific-date/175762/2 "2019-04-08T06:10:35Z")
Snapshot and restore works at the index level so only snapshotting part of an index is not possible.
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### Author:  [@joubeh](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/joubeh)
#### Post date: [April 8, 2019, 6:11am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/snapshot-documents-older-than-specific-date/175762/3 "2019-04-08T06:11:14Z")
noted, thanks
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [May 6, 2019, 6:11am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/snapshot-documents-older-than-specific-date/175762/4 "2019-05-06T06:11:22Z")
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