# Elasticsearch : Snapshots not executed automatically (cron schedule issue)

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-snapshots-not-executed-automatically-cron-schedule-issue/300820>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Tags:** slm-snapshot-lifecycle-management, snapshot-and-restore\
**Created:** [March 28, 2022, 9:05am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-snapshots-not-executed-automatically-cron-schedule-issue/300820 "2022-03-28T09:05:01Z")\
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**Author:** ![Ksnov](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9f8e36/32.png) [@Ksnov](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Ksnov)\
**Post date:** [March 28, 2022, 9:05am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-snapshots-not-executed-automatically-cron-schedule-issue/300820/1 "2022-03-28T09:05:02Z")

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Hi !

I've changed the schedule of my managed snapshot policy. By default, the cron is each 30 minutes, and I wanted just one per day. Since... the snapshots are not executed automatically...

I've putted back the previous configuration but it doesn't fixed the problem 😕

There's no recent failure (last failure is Feb 03, 2022 10:30 AM).  
BUT ! I'm able to manually take a snapshot. It's only the cron that is not working.

My deployment is at version 7.17.1, this is the json config returned by GET [https://ES.HOST/\_slm/policy/](https://ES.HOST/_slm/policy/) :

```auto
{
    "cloud-snapshot-policy": {
        "version": 10,
        "modified_date_millis": 1648205967792,
        "policy": {
            "name": "<cloud-snapshot-{now/d}>",
            "schedule": "0 */30 * * * ?",
            "repository": "found-snapshots",
            "config": {
                "partial": true
            },
            "retention": {
                "expire_after": "259200s",
                "min_count": 10,
                "max_count": 100
            }
        },
        "last_success": {
            "snapshot_name": "cloud-snapshot-2022.03.28-7bsk_rtkt7klcmre3yghtq",
            "start_time": 1648449376402,
            "time": 1648451047195
        },
        "last_failure": {
            "snapshot_name": "cloud-snapshot-2022.02.03-yyl4pcwfqvynla9v7noqgg",
            "time": 1643880630250
        },
        "next_execution_millis": 1648458000000,
        "stats": {
            "policy": "cloud-snapshot-policy",
            "snapshots_taken": 23346,
            "snapshots_failed": 230,
            "snapshots_deleted": 23214,
            "snapshot_deletion_failures": 119
        }
    }
}

```

My deployment is managed on Elastic Cloud, using Azure.

I've taken a snapshot manually 2 hours ago and, as you can see, a snapshot should have been executed 3 minutes ago but doesn't appear in my found-snapshots reposity (even in the logs, there's nothing...)

 ![enter image description here](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/2/8/28f9d177becbf78528726ff9c0e07bd7a3ea075b.png)

So it's "just" the cron schedule that needs to be fixed... Any suggestion ?

Thanks !

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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:** [April 25, 2022, 9:05am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-snapshots-not-executed-automatically-cron-schedule-issue/300820/2 "2022-04-25T09:05:22Z")

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