diff --git a/manifests/server/service.pp b/manifests/server/service.pp
index 1e205c2..13cbdad 100644
--- a/manifests/server/service.pp
+++ b/manifests/server/service.pp
@@ -58,7 +58,7 @@ class confdroid_nagios::server::service (
         'nagios_contactgroup',
         'nagios_command',
       'nagios_timeperiod']:
-        purge => true,
+        purge => false,
     }
 
     # collect resources and populate /etc/nagios/conf.d/nagios_*.cfg