# Elasticsearch Snapshot Error
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-snapshot-error/149738
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [September 24, 2018, 9:14pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-snapshot-error/149738 "2018-09-24T21:14:20Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author:  [@DravenJohnson](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/DravenJohnson)
#### Post date: [September 24, 2018, 9:14pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-snapshot-error/149738/1 "2018-09-24T21:14:21Z")
Questions is similar to Error [Missing Snapshot Error](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/missing-snapshot-error/134485/4)
We investigated into this, looks like upgrade Elasticsearch from 5 to 6 broke it. Is there any way to fix this now?
If not able to fix it, we want to use curator to delete some of those old snapshots but unable to do so. Error: Snapshot does not exist. Is there solution to skip it?
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### Author:  [@theuntergeek](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/theuntergeek)
#### Post date: [September 24, 2018, 11:26pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-snapshot-error/149738/2 "2018-09-24T23:26:36Z")
Are you 100% certain that all nodes can read and write to the repository?
You're probably going to have to do a lot of manual API work to sort out what happened.
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### Author:  [@DravenJohnson](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/DravenJohnson)
#### Post date: [September 25, 2018, 4:42pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-snapshot-error/149738/3 "2018-09-25T16:42:13Z")
Yes, repository `_verify` call return correct result. I did all check but looks like some `snapshot.snap` file are missing.
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### Author:  [@theuntergeek](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/theuntergeek)
#### Post date: [September 25, 2018, 5:02pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-snapshot-error/149738/4 "2018-09-25T17:02:43Z")
Not sure what happened, but yeah. This is going to take some effort to clean up. Because it seems that data may be lost, it may be easier to set up a new, clean repository and start over. I don't say this lightly, but if you have lost files, there's no telling what you'd be able to restore, should it come to that.
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [October 23, 2018, 5:02pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-snapshot-error/149738/5 "2018-10-23T17:02:44Z")
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