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Delete Snapshots

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Delete Snapshots

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action: delete_snapshots
description: "Delete selected snapshots from 'repository'"
options:
  repository: ...
  retry_interval: 120
  retry_count: 3
filters:
- filtertype: ...

Empty values and commented lines will result in the default value, if any, being selected. If a setting is set, but not used by a given action, it will be ignored.

This action deletes the selected snapshots from the selected repository. If a snapshot is currently underway, Curator will retry up to retry_count times, with a delay of retry_interval seconds between retries.

Required settings

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Optional settings

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See an example of this action in an actionfile here.

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