Snapshot name patterns

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In elasticsearch 7.4.0, I have a snapshot policy that has the snapshot name pattern set to ""<snapshot-{now/d}>", however when the snapshots are taken, they have extra characters appended to the name, for example:

snapshot-2019.10.19-v29uweoos5yvxt5hz2sb7g

Why?

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hi @wyllys66

see the SLM documentation at Put snapshot lifecycle policy API | Elasticsearch Guide [7.4] | Elastic that states:

To prevent conflicting snapshot names, a UUID is automatically appended to each snapshot name.

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Thanks! I didn't see that before because I setup my snapshot policy through Kibana and not using the REST API directly.

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