# Elasticsearch snapshot backup issues

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-snapshot-backup-issues/69982>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [December 26, 2016, 8:17am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-snapshot-backup-issues/69982 "2016-12-26T08:17:14Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:** ![kunalpatil3017](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/kunalpatil3017/32/12632_2.png) [@kunalpatil3017](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/kunalpatil3017)\
**Post date:** [December 26, 2016, 8:17am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-snapshot-backup-issues/69982/1 "2016-12-26T08:17:14Z")

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Hello  
Need to send everyday snapshot backup to s3  
i m using following command  
curl -XPUT 'localhost:9200/\_snapshot/s3\_repository/snapshot\_2?wait\_for\_completion=true&pretty'

i need to store backup on s3 on different folder structure with folder name with current date

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**Author:** ![warkolm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/warkolm/32/39224_2.png) [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)\
**Post date:** [December 26, 2016, 8:45am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-snapshot-backup-issues/69982/2 "2016-12-26T08:45:36Z")

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What is the problem then?

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**Author:** ![kunalpatil3017](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/kunalpatil3017/32/12632_2.png) [@kunalpatil3017](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/kunalpatil3017)\
**Post date:** [December 26, 2016, 9:32am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-snapshot-backup-issues/69982/3 "2016-12-26T09:32:23Z")

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How to achieve that

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**Author:** ![Christian\_Dahlqvist](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/christian_dahlqvist/32/4617_2.png) [@Christian\_Dahlqvist](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Christian_Dahlqvist)\
**Post date:** [December 26, 2016, 9:51am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-snapshot-backup-issues/69982/4 "2016-12-26T09:51:29Z")

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Snapshots may contain references to segments backed up in previous snapshots, which makes it difficult to split it up the way you want. This is quite well described in [this blog post](https://www.elastic.co/blog/found-elasticsearch-snapshot-and-restore). What is the driver behind this requirement?

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**Author:** ![kunalpatil3017](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/kunalpatil3017/32/12632_2.png) [@kunalpatil3017](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/kunalpatil3017)\
**Post date:** [December 26, 2016, 9:53am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-snapshot-backup-issues/69982/5 "2016-12-26T09:53:22Z")

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so basically i only need to change snapshot name \>  
in this case how will i restore it coz i m getting below error

error" : {  
"root\_cause" : [ {  
"type" : "snapshot\_restore\_exception",  
"reason" : "[s3\_repository:snapshot\_1] cannot restore index [graylog\_25] because it's open"  
} ],

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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:** [January 23, 2017, 9:53am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-snapshot-backup-issues/69982/6 "2017-01-23T09:53:33Z")

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