# Elasticsearch backup failing

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-backup-failing/167438>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [February 7, 2019, 11:39am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-backup-failing/167438 "2019-02-07T11:39:10Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![Sukanta\_Saha](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/sukanta_saha/32/117858_2.png) [@Sukanta\_Saha](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Sukanta_Saha)\
**Post date:** [February 7, 2019, 11:39am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-backup-failing/167438/1 "2019-02-07T11:39:10Z")

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Our elasticsearch backup are failing with below error ,

In some index its saying this  
{  
"index" : "bm\_brand\_prop\_433",  
"index\_uuid" : "bm\_brand\_prop\_433",  
"shard\_id" : 0,  
"reason" : "RepositoryMissingException[[spr-prod-es-backup-group5] missing]",  
"node\_id" : "MlnIDygWQCadHlZKZKJDvg",  
"status" : "INTERNAL\_SERVER\_ERROR"  
}

In some index its saying  
{  
"index" : "bm\_acct\_prop\_819",  
"index\_uuid" : "bm\_acct\_prop\_819",  
"shard\_id" : 2,  
"reason" : "IndexShardSnapshotFailedException[com.amazonaws.AmazonClientException: Unable to execute HTTP request: connect timed out]; nested: AmazonClientException[Unable to execute HTTP request: connect timed out]; nested: SocketTimeoutException[connect timed out]; ",  
"node\_id" : "tDnhC3M3SSKquBQWRaKntw",  
"status" : "INTERNAL\_SERVER\_ERROR"  
}

and some indices are backed up

we are using type s3 to storage  
Repo info

"spr-prod-es-backup-group5" : {  
"type" : "s3",  
"settings" : {  
"bucket" : "spr-prod-es-backup-group5",  
"base\_path" : "D-benchmarking-signal3",  
"server\_side\_encryption" : "true",  
"max\_retries" : "5"  
}  
}

can some one help me what is solution

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**Author:** ![Sukanta\_Saha](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/sukanta_saha/32/117858_2.png) [@Sukanta\_Saha](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Sukanta_Saha)\
**Post date:** [February 7, 2019, 12:00pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-backup-failing/167438/2 "2019-02-07T12:00:07Z")

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We are using es 5.4 and repository s3 plugin

ls -al /usr/local/elasticsearch-5.4.0/plugins/repository-s3/  
total 4404  
drwxr-xr-x 2 sprinternal sprinternal 4096 May 10 2017 .  
drwxr-xr-x 11 sprinternal sprinternal 4096 Mar 24 2018 ..  
-rwxr-xr-x 1 sprinternal sprinternal 619790 May 10 2017 aws-java-sdk-core-1.10.69.jar  
-rwxr-xr-x 1 sprinternal sprinternal 345717 May 10 2017 aws-java-sdk-kms-1.10.69.jar  
-rwxr-xr-x 1 sprinternal sprinternal 622188 May 10 2017 aws-java-sdk-s3-1.10.69.jar  
-rwxr-xr-x 1 sprinternal sprinternal 284184 May 10 2017 commons-codec-1.10.jar  
-rwxr-xr-x 1 sprinternal sprinternal 62050 May 10 2017 commons-logging-1.1.3.jar  
-rwxr-xr-x 1 sprinternal sprinternal 736658 May 10 2017 httpclient-4.5.2.jar  
-rwxr-xr-x 1 sprinternal sprinternal 327373 May 10 2017 httpcore-4.4.5.jar  
-rwxr-xr-x 1 sprinternal sprinternal 39815 May 10 2017 jackson-annotations-2.5.0.jar  
-rwxr-xr-x 1 sprinternal sprinternal 1143162 May 10 2017 jackson-databind-2.5.3.jar  
-rwxr-xr-x 1 sprinternal sprinternal 105134 May 10 2017 jaxb-api-2.2.2.jar  
-rwxr-xr-x 1 sprinternal sprinternal 11358 May 10 2017 LICENSE.txt  
-rwxr-xr-x 1 sprinternal sprinternal 124118 May 10 2017 NOTICE.txt  
-rwxr-xr-x 1 sprinternal sprinternal 1440 May 10 2017 plugin-descriptor.properties  
-rwxr-xr-x 1 sprinternal sprinternal 1680 May 10 2017 plugin-security.policy  
-rwxr-xr-x 1 sprinternal sprinternal 46586 May 10 2017 repository-s3-5.4.0.jar

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**Author:** ![DavidTurner](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/davidturner/32/22453_2.png) [@DavidTurner](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/DavidTurner)\
**Post date:** [February 7, 2019, 2:25pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-backup-failing/167438/3 "2019-02-07T14:25:36Z")

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> [@Sukanta\_Saha](#):
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> connect timed out

This suggests a connectivity error, or else perhaps your [DNS cache is not expiring](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/5.6/networkaddress-cache-ttl.html).

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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:** [March 7, 2019, 2:25pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-backup-failing/167438/4 "2019-03-07T14:25:46Z")

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