# ES 1.6 can't query for existing snapshots

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/es-1-6-cant-query-for-existing-snapshots/25622>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [July 15, 2015, 12:38pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/es-1-6-cant-query-for-existing-snapshots/25622 "2015-07-15T12:38:00Z")\
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**Author:** ![maq123](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/maq123/32/3723_2.png) [@maq123](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/maq123)\
**Post date:** [July 15, 2015, 12:38pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/es-1-6-cant-query-for-existing-snapshots/25622/1 "2015-07-15T12:38:00Z")

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Hi All !

I have been playing today with ES snapshots feature executing specific indices snapshots directly using REST API with curl and with curator.

After several tests like create/delete snapshot for index, and the same for a larger indices group I run into strange issue when I am unable to query for snapshot list within my repository ( 'my\_backup' ).

Tried restarting all the nodes but issue seems to be persistent.  
The same happens regardless currenty picked master node.

Here is my outputs :

My current repo :

```
    root@kibana:~# curl -XGET 'http://localhost:9700/_snapshot/my_backup' | python -m json.tool
 {
        "my_backup": {
            "settings": {
                "location": "/mnt/es_backup"
            },
            "type": "fs"
        }
    }

```

My current test snapshot \_1 :

```
root@kibana:~# curl -XGET 'http://localhost:9700/_snapshot/my_backup/snapshot_1' | python -m json.tool
{
    "snapshots": [
        {
            "duration_in_millis": 91,
            "end_time": "2015-07-15T12:21:01.580Z",
            "end_time_in_millis": 1436962861580,
            "failures": [],
            "indices": [
                "logstash-2015.06.18"
            ],
            "shards": {
                "failed": 0,
                "successful": 5,
                "total": 5
            },
            "snapshot": "snapshot_1",
            "start_time": "2015-07-15T12:21:01.489Z",
            "start_time_in_millis": 1436962861489,
            "state": "SUCCESS"
        }
    ]
}

```

Here's the problem - I am unable to query for snapshots stored under my\_backup :

```
root@kibana:~# curl -XGET 'http://localhost:9700/_snapshot/my_backup/_all' | python -m json.tool
{
    "error": "RemoteTransportException[[vmtest3_node][inet[/192.168.106.29:9300]][cluster:admin/snapshot/get]]; nested: ElasticsearchParseException[Failed to derive xcontent from (offset=0, length=0): []]; ",
    "status": 400
}

```

Same with curator :

```
root@kibana:~# curator --debug show snapshots --all-snapshots --repository my_backup
2015-07-15 14:33:57,895 INFO curator.cli.snapshot_selection snapshots:50 Job starting: show snapshots
2015-07-15 14:33:57,895 DEBUG curator.cli.utils get_client:110 kwargs = {'url_prefix': u'', 'http_auth': None, 'dry_run': False, 'loglevel': u'INFO', 'host': u'localhost', 'logformat': u'default', 'timeout': 30, 'debug': True, 'use_ssl': False, 'logfile': None, 'master_only': False, 'port': 9200}
2015-07-15 14:33:57,896 DEBUG urllib3.util.retry from_int:155 Converted retries value: False -> Retry(total=False, connect=None, read=None, redirect=0)
2015-07-15 14:33:57,896 INFO urllib3.connectionpool _new_conn:188 Starting new HTTP connection (1): localhost
2015-07-15 14:33:57,899 DEBUG urllib3.connectionpool _make_request:362 "GET / HTTP/1.1" 200 340
2015-07-15 14:33:57,899 INFO elasticsearch log_request_success:57 GET http://localhost:9200/ [status:200 request:0.003s]
2015-07-15 14:33:57,899 DEBUG elasticsearch log_request_success:59 > None
2015-07-15 14:33:57,899 DEBUG elasticsearch log_request_success:60 < {
  "status" : 200,
  "name" : "kibana_node",
  "cluster_name" : "ES_CLUSTER",
  "version" : {
    "number" : "1.6.0",
    "build_hash" : "cdd3ac4dde4f69524ec0a14de3828cb95bbb86d0",
    "build_timestamp" : "2015-06-09T13:36:34Z",
    "build_snapshot" : false,
    "lucene_version" : "4.10.4"
  },
  "tagline" : "You Know, for Search"
}

2015-07-15 14:33:57,900 DEBUG curator.cli.utils check_version:90 Detected Elasticsearch version 1.6.0
2015-07-15 14:33:57,900 DEBUG urllib3.util.retry from_int:155 Converted retries value: False -> Retry(total=False, connect=None, read=None, redirect=0)
2015-07-15 14:33:57,900 INFO urllib3.connectionpool _get_conn:223 Resetting dropped connection: localhost
2015-07-15 14:33:58,056 DEBUG urllib3.connectionpool _make_request:362 "GET /_snapshot/my_backup/_all HTTP/1.1" 400 217
2015-07-15 14:33:58,056 WARNING elasticsearch log_request_fail:76 GET /_snapshot/my_backup/_all [status:400 request:0.156s]
2015-07-15 14:33:58,056 INFO elasticsearch log_request_fail:84 > None
2015-07-15 14:33:58,056 ERROR curator.api.utils get_snapshots:240 Unable to find all snapshots in repository: my_backup
ERROR. No snapshots found in Elasticsearch.

```

Would appreciate all the help.

Best Regards,  
maq

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**Post date:** [July 6, 2017, 12:01am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/es-1-6-cant-query-for-existing-snapshots/25622/2 "2017-07-06T00:01:16Z")

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