# Error while creating Snapshots

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/error-while-creating-snapshots/317366>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [October 25, 2022, 5:03am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/error-while-creating-snapshots/317366 "2022-10-25T05:03:31Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![selvaraj-sembulingam](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/selvaraj-sembulingam/32/112482_2.png) [@selvaraj-sembulingam](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/selvaraj-sembulingam)\
**Post date:** [October 25, 2022, 5:03am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/error-while-creating-snapshots/317366/1 "2022-10-25T05:03:31Z")

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Getting the following error while creating snapshots

```auto
INTERNAL_SERVER_ERROR: java.lang.IllegalStateException: Could not find a readable index-N file in a non-empty shard snapshot directory [[indices][qduDEnw9Se6TrncgbEZBDA][0]]
	at org.elasticsearch.repositories.blobstore.BlobStoreRepository.buildBlobStoreIndexShardSnapshots(BlobStoreRepository.java:2035)
	at org.elasticsearch.repositories.blobstore.BlobStoreRepository.buildBlobStoreIndexShardSnapshots(BlobStoreRepository.java:2016)
	at org.elasticsearch.repositories.blobstore.BlobStoreRepository.snapshotShard(BlobStoreRepository.java:1575)
	at org.elasticsearch.snapshots.SnapshotShardsService.snapshot(SnapshotShardsService.java:345)
	at org.elasticsearch.snapshots.SnapshotShardsService.lambda$startNewShards$1(SnapshotShardsService.java:289)
	at org.elasticsearch.common.util.concurrent.ThreadContext$ContextPreservingRunnable.run(ThreadContext.java:633)
	at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1149)
	at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:624)
	at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:748)

```

Could someone help to resolve this ? This occurs only for a specific indices

Thanks

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**Author:** ![selvaraj-sembulingam](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/selvaraj-sembulingam/32/112482_2.png) [@selvaraj-sembulingam](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/selvaraj-sembulingam)\
**Post date:** [October 25, 2022, 12:43pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/error-while-creating-snapshots/317366/2 "2022-10-25T12:43:31Z")

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Has anyone faced similar issues

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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 22, 2022, 12:43pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/error-while-creating-snapshots/317366/3 "2022-11-22T12:43:59Z")

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