README.md

###Use Elastic Curator to cleanup ElasticSearch index backups in S3 ElasticSearch has a great index backup/restore API, which makes the whole process really simple. A single RESTful call creates an incremental backup of the indices and stores it to S3, simple!! Problem is they don’t give you an easy way to manage your backups, so you can end up with massive amounts of data in S3, we had over 8TB which we didn’t need. Enter Curator which allows you to manage indices and snapshots easily.

Install curator either on an ElasticSearch server or another server with access to it Remove "==3.5.1" if you want the latest version

pip install elasticsearch-curator==3.5.1

###Dry run to verify config (wont delete anything) curator --dry-run --config curator.yml --dry-run actionFile.yml

###Run and delete snapshots curator --config curator.yml --dry-run actionFile.yml

actionFile.yml

 #Details of specif actions to carryout in order
 actions:
  1:
    action: delete_snapshots
    description: Delete index Snapshots over 3 days old
    options:
     repository: my-snapshots-repo
    filters:
    - filtertype: age
      source: creation_date
      direction: older
      unit: days
      unit_count: 3

curator.yml

#Global curator config
client:
  hosts: 10.1.1.1
  port: 9200
  timeout: 300