# Elasticsearch snapshot IN\_PROGRESS for a long time. The delete snapshot API is also not working

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-snapshot-in-progress-for-a-long-time-the-delete-snapshot-api-is-also-not-working/202623>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [October 8, 2019, 7:07am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-snapshot-in-progress-for-a-long-time-the-delete-snapshot-api-is-also-not-working/202623 "2019-10-08T07:07:21Z")\
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**Author:** ![nisham](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/35a633/32.png) [@nisham](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/nisham)\
**Post date:** [October 8, 2019, 7:07am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-snapshot-in-progress-for-a-long-time-the-delete-snapshot-api-is-also-not-working/202623/1 "2019-10-08T07:07:21Z")

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Hello,  
I have a Elasticsearch cluster with following configuration.

Elasticsearch version : 5.1.1  
Number of Nodes : 10

A daily snapshot process is running in the Cluster. In which the last snapshot was created few days ago and it's status is still **IN\_PROGRESS**. I tried to delete the pending snapshot via api but it fails.

Also I have performed a cluster rolling restart, created a new repository and tried with taking new snapshot but its giving **snapshot in progress** exception.

I have listed the tasks in cluster and only found the snapshot delete task with "cancellable" : false.

Please help me to solve this. Thanks in advance.

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**Author:** ![ywelsch](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/ywelsch/32/7751_2.png) [@ywelsch](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ywelsch)\
**Post date:** [October 9, 2019, 9:13am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-snapshot-in-progress-for-a-long-time-the-delete-snapshot-api-is-also-not-working/202623/2 "2019-10-09T09:13:34Z")

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There were bugs in older Elasticsearch versions such as yours where snapshots could get stuck. A full cluster restart will solve the problem. So will upgrading to a recent version of ES (e.g. 6.8 or 7.4)

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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:** [November 6, 2019, 9:13am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-snapshot-in-progress-for-a-long-time-the-delete-snapshot-api-is-also-not-working/202623/3 "2019-11-06T09:13:36Z")

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