Card #2651 · Elastic (Elasticsearch / Kibana)
S3 lifecycle policies causing snapshot repository corruption
Using S3 lifecycle policies to delete or expire objects in snapshot buckets leads to permanent loss of repository contents. This causes restore failures because required snapshot files are deleted by the S3 policy rather than being managed by Elasticsearch SLM.
Pain score
0.16/ 1.00 · weighted product of four components
Reach0.40distinct authors (log-normalized)
Recency1.00freshness decay, half-life months
Engagement0.79upvotes + comments, normalized
Monetization0.50willingness-to-pay cues in evidence
§ Evidence — 2 verified quotes
you cannot have an S3 lifecycle policy deleting objects as this would delete the objects related to snapshots
If you use a Glacier storage class, or another unsupported storage class, or object expiry, then you may permanently lose access to your repository contents.
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