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Delete snapshot API

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Delete snapshot API

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Deletes a snapshot.

DELETE /_snapshot/my_repository/my_snapshot

Request

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DELETE /_snapshot/<repository>/<snapshot>

Prerequisites

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If the Elasticsearch security features are enabled, you must have the manage cluster privilege to use this API.

Path parameters

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<repository>: (Required, string) Name of the repository to delete a snapshot from.
<snapshot>: (Required, string) Comma-separated list of snapshot names to delete. Also accepts wildcards (*).

Query parameters

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master_timeout: (Optional, time units) 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. Defaults to 30s.

Example

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The following request deletes snapshot_2 and snapshot_3 from the repository named my_repository.

DELETE /_snapshot/my_repository/snapshot_2,snapshot_3

The API returns the following response:

{
  "acknowledged" : true
}

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