# Elasticsearch start failure related to snapshot reconfigure

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-start-failure-related-to-snapshot-reconfigure/68781>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [December 12, 2016, 10:08pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-start-failure-related-to-snapshot-reconfigure/68781 "2016-12-12T22:08:13Z")\
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**Author:** ![john6](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/b5e925/32.png) [@john6](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/john6)\
**Post date:** [December 12, 2016, 10:08pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-start-failure-related-to-snapshot-reconfigure/68781/1 "2016-12-12T22:08:13Z")

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Elasticsearch 2.3, single server, Centos 7  
The server used to store snapshots was lost. Tried to reconfigure for new backup server and ended up here.  
Is there a way to recover ?

[2016-12-12 11:02:29,793][WARN][rest.suppressed] /\_snapshot/es-backup Params: {repository=es-backup}  
java.lang.IllegalStateException: trying to modify or unregister repository that is currently used  
at org.elasticsearch.repositories.RepositoriesService.ensureRepositoryNotInUse(RepositoriesService.java:417)  
at org.elasticsearch.repositories.RepositoriesService.access$000(RepositoriesService.java:55)  
at org.elasticsearch.repositories.RepositoriesService$1.execute(RepositoriesService.java:108)  
at org.elasticsearch.cluster.ClusterStateUpdateTask.execute(ClusterStateUpdateTask.java:45)  
at org.elasticsearch.cluster.service.InternalClusterService.runTasksForExecutor(InternalClusterService.java:468)  
at org.elasticsearch.cluster.service.InternalClusterService$UpdateTask.run(InternalClusterService.java:772)  
at org.elasticsearch.common.util.concurrent.PrioritizedEsThreadPoolExecutor$TieBreakingPrioritizedRunnable.runAndClean(PrioritizedEsThreadPoolExecutor.java:231)  
at org.elasticsearch.common.util.concurrent.PrioritizedEsThreadPoolExecutor$TieBreakingPrioritizedRunnable.run(PrioritizedEsThreadPoolExecutor.java:194)  
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1142)  
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:617)  
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:745)

[2016-12-12 11:39:04,281][WARN][rest.suppressed] /\_snapshot/es-backup/snapshot\_2016-11-30-08:06:36 Params: {repository=es-backup, snapshot=snapshot\_2016-11-30-08:06:36}  
ConcurrentSnapshotExecutionException[[es-backup:snapshot\_2016-11-30-08:06:36] another snapshot is currently running cannot delete]  
at org.elasticsearch.snapshots.SnapshotsService$7.execute(SnapshotsService.java:886)  
at org.elasticsearch.cluster.ClusterStateUpdateTask.execute(ClusterStateUpdateTask.java:45)  
at org.elasticsearch.cluster.service.InternalClusterService.runTasksForExecutor(InternalClusterService.java:468)  
at org.elasticsearch.cluster.service.InternalClusterService$UpdateTask.run(InternalClusterService.java:772)  
at org.elasticsearch.common.util.concurrent.PrioritizedEsThreadPoolExecutor$TieBreakingPrioritizedRunnable.runAndClean(PrioritizedEsThreadPoolExecutor.java:231)  
at org.elasticsearch.common.util.concurrent.PrioritizedEsThreadPoolExecutor$TieBreakingPrioritizedRunnable.run(PrioritizedEsThreadPoolExecutor.java:194)  
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1142)  
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:617)  
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:745)  
[2016-12-12 11:40:18,637][INFO][node] [Ogre] stopping ...  
[2016-12-12 11:40:19,074][INFO][node] [Ogre] stopped  
[2016-12-12 11:40:19,074][INFO][node] [Ogre] closing ...  
[2016-12-12 11:40:29,091][INFO][node] [Ogre] closed

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**Author:** ![john6](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/b5e925/32.png) [@john6](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/john6)\
**Post date:** [December 16, 2016, 4:29pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-start-failure-related-to-snapshot-reconfigure/68781/2 "2016-12-16T16:29:01Z")

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This has been resolved. The elasticsearch config file data path entry had become set to snapshot NFS share instead of actual db data.

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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 13, 2017, 4:29pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-start-failure-related-to-snapshot-reconfigure/68781/3 "2017-01-13T16:29:30Z")

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