Run a retention policy Added in 7.5.0
Manually apply the retention policy to force immediate removal of snapshots that are expired according to the snapshot lifecycle policy retention rules. The retention policy is normally applied according to its schedule.
Query parameters
-
master_timeout string
The period to wait for a connection to the master node. If no response is received before the timeout expires, the request fails and returns an error.
-
timeout string
The period to wait for a response. If no response is received before the timeout expires, the request fails and returns an error.
curl \
-X POST http://api.example.com/_slm/_execute_retention
{
"acknowledged": true
}