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      • GETList all snapshots (collection)
      • POSTCreate a snapshot (collection)
      • POSTRecover from an uploaded snapshot (collection)
      • PUTRecover from a snapshot (collection)
      • GETDownload a snapshot (collection)
      • DELDelete a snapshot (collection)
      • GETList all snapshots (storage)
      • POSTCreate a snapshot (storage)
      • GETDownload a snapshot (storage)
      • DELDelete a snapshot (storage)
      • GETDownload shard snapshot
      • POSTRecover from an uploaded snapshot (shard)
      • PUTRecover from a snapshot (shard)
      • GETList all snapshots (shard)
      • POSTCreate a snapshot (shard)
      • GETDownload a snapshot (shard)
      • DELDelete a snapshot (shard)
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API ReferenceSnapshots

Delete a snapshot (collection)

DELETE
/collections/:collection_name/snapshots/:snapshot_name
DELETE
/collections/:collection_name/snapshots/:snapshot_name
$curl  -X DELETE \
>  'http://localhost:6333/collections/collection_name/snapshots/snapshot_name' \
>  --header 'api-key: <api-key-value>'
200Deleted
1{
2  "time": 0.002,
3  "status": "ok",
4  "result": true
5}
Deletes the specified snapshot for a collection.
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Authentication

api-keystring
API Key authentication via header

Path parameters

collection_namestringRequired
Name of the collection for which to delete a snapshot
snapshot_namestringRequired
Name of the snapshot to delete

Query parameters

waitbooleanOptional

If true, wait for changes to actually happen. If false - let changes happen in background. Default is true.

Response

successful operation
timedouble
Time spent to process this request
statusstring
resultboolean