# Can't take Elastic 6.8.0 snapshot

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/cant-take-elastic-6-8-0-snapshot/208171>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [November 16, 2019, 3:47pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/cant-take-elastic-6-8-0-snapshot/208171 "2019-11-16T15:47:21Z")\
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**Author:** ![tfe2012](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/49beb7/32.png) [@tfe2012](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/tfe2012)\
**Post date:** [November 16, 2019, 3:47pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/cant-take-elastic-6-8-0-snapshot/208171/1 "2019-11-16T15:47:21Z")

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Hi, Try to make a snapshot of the cluster

PUT /\_snapshot/my\_backup/pre\_prod\_2

It works for 3-4 hours and after struggling on this state:

"snapshot" : "pre\_prod\_2",  
"repository" : "my\_backup",  
"uuid" : "YhlA8Ke9Rlu34HpVLDvsLg",  
"state" : "STARTED",  
"include\_global\_state" : true,  
"shards\_stats" : {  
"initializing" : 39,  
"started" : 4,  
"finalizing" : 0,  
"done" : 308,  
"failed" : 89,  
"total" : 440  
},

And nothing happening.

What to do? Is it possible rerun?

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**Author:** ![Armin\_Braun](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/armin_braun/32/20092_2.png) [@Armin\_Braun](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Armin_Braun)\
**Post date:** [November 16, 2019, 7:20pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/cant-take-elastic-6-8-0-snapshot/208171/2 "2019-11-16T19:20:31Z")

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Hi @tfe2012

two questions:

1. If you abort this kind of stuck snapshot (by deleting it), does it eventually stop properly?
2. What are those 89 failed shards? Why did they fail? (can you share logs or the concrete failures?)

> What to do? Is it possible rerun?

Aborting and running the snapshot again seems like the best option here if the snapshot isn't making any progress at all. If it's making some progress, letting it finish and the running another snapshot will be faster due to the incremental nature of snapshots. Even if you have some failures during one snapshot, the data it put in the repository will be reused by the next snapshot you run where possible so even a partially failed snapshot contributes progress to future snapshots.

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**Author:** ![tfe2012](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/49beb7/32.png) [@tfe2012](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/tfe2012)\
**Post date:** [November 21, 2019, 11:24am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/cant-take-elastic-6-8-0-snapshot/208171/3 "2019-11-21T11:24:03Z")

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Hi,

1. I delete snapshot, and start snapshot again, it works.

2. I stop all update/delete process. Connect another remote disk driver. Turn off compression on snapshot.

And after that it start works well. I don't know what exactly help 🙂

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**Author:** ![Armin\_Braun](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/armin_braun/32/20092_2.png) [@Armin\_Braun](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Armin_Braun)\
**Post date:** [November 21, 2019, 8:18pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/cant-take-elastic-6-8-0-snapshot/208171/4 "2019-11-21T20:18:10Z")

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@tfe2012

> I stop all update/delete process.

Likely this would've sufficed to fix the issue as the snapshot implementation is designed to be resilient to errors. As a tip for next time you run into any trouble, I'd try this first before moving to other more time-consuming work-arounds 🙂

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [December 19, 2019, 8:18pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/cant-take-elastic-6-8-0-snapshot/208171/5 "2019-12-19T20:18:11Z")

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