# ES doesn't show list of snapshots **URL:** \ **Category:** Elasticsearch\ **Created:** [July 21, 2017, 12:25pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/es-doesnt-show-list-of-snapshots/94113 "2017-07-21T12:25:08Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![fetch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/dbc845/32.png) [@fetch](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/fetch)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2017, 12:25pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/es-doesnt-show-list-of-snapshots/94113/1 "2017-07-21T12:25:08Z")
Hi, I've had a server with ES 5.x. It was configured to make weekly snapshots and it worked fine. One day, the server crashed, but I have all my snapshots available. Today I'm trying to restore my indicies from the snapshot to the ES 5.5.0, but I've found the following strange behavior: ``` curl -XGET 'localhost:9200/_snapshot/my_backup/_status?pretty' { "snapshots" : [] } ``` So looks like there is no snapshots available, but if I query info for exact snapshot, it will show it: ``` curl -XGET 'localhost:9200/_snapshot/my_backup/snapshot_17/_status?pretty' { "snapshots" : [ { "snapshot" : "snapshot_17", "repository" : "my_backup", "uuid" : "AvAkoUytS-eQZr5MClc-yw", "state" : "SUCCESS", "shards_stats" : { "initializing" : 0, "started" : 0, "finalizing" : 0, "done" : 232, "failed" : 0, "total" : 232 }, "stats" : { "number_of_files" : 2152, "processed_files" : 2152, "total_size_in_bytes" : 20608012148, "processed_size_in_bytes" : 20608012148, "start_time_in_millis" : 1496880033727, "time_in_millis" : 1283497 }, "indices" : { ... } ``` so why didn't the first command show the snapshot? (in fact there are snapshot\_1 ... snapshot\_17 available) ---
**Author:** ![colings86](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/colings86/32/44960_2.png) [@colings86](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/colings86)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2017, 12:52pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/es-doesnt-show-list-of-snapshots/94113/2 "2017-07-21T12:52:11Z")
To list all snapshots you should use: ```auto curl -XGET 'localhost:9200/_snapshot/my_backup/_all/_status?pretty` ``` I think when you requested: ```auto curl -XGET 'localhost:9200/_snapshot/my_backup/_status?pretty' ``` Elasticsearch interpreted it as you wanting to find a snapshot named `_status` which is why you got 0 results. ---
**Author:** ![fetch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/dbc845/32.png) [@fetch](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/fetch)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2017, 12:56pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/es-doesnt-show-list-of-snapshots/94113/3 "2017-07-21T12:56:05Z")
According to the documentation: [https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/modules-snapshots.html](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/modules-snapshots.html) `curl -XGET 'localhost:9200/_snapshot/my_backup/_status?pretty'` must return information about all snapshots in the particular repository. ---
**Author:** ![colings86](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/colings86/32/44960_2.png) [@colings86](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/colings86)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2017, 1:19pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/es-doesnt-show-list-of-snapshots/94113/4 "2017-07-21T13:19:02Z")
The paragraph above that command (sorry I didn't scroll down to there before, I was looking at the section titled `Snapshot`) says: "In this format, the command will return information about all currently running snapshots" By `all currently running snapshots` its referring to all snapshots that are currently in progress (as in the ones that are actually in the process of creating a snapshot). This is a bit confusing though so I'll make a change to update the documentation to clarify that. I think in your case `curl -XGET 'localhost:9200/_snapshot/my_backup/_all/_status?pretty` should give you what you are after ---
**Author:** ![fetch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/dbc845/32.png) [@fetch](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/fetch)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2017, 1:22pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/es-doesnt-show-list-of-snapshots/94113/5 "2017-07-21T13:22:49Z")
Thanks for the explanation! However, your suggested command doesn't work either: ``` curl -XGET 'localhost:9200/_snapshot/my_backup/_all/_status?pretty' { "snapshots" : [] } ``` ---
**Author:** ![colings86](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/colings86/32/44960_2.png) [@colings86](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/colings86)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2017, 1:26pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/es-doesnt-show-list-of-snapshots/94113/6 "2017-07-21T13:26:46Z")
Hmm actually the command I meant to write from the document was: ```auto GET /_snapshot/my_backup/_all ``` but looking at this again it is actually weird and confusing that `_snapshot/REPO/SNAPSHOT/_status` does return a result but `_snapshot/REPO/_all/_status` doesn't. I'll try and investigate this a bit more. Bear with me. ---
**Author:** ![fetch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/dbc845/32.png) [@fetch](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/fetch)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2017, 1:29pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/es-doesnt-show-list-of-snapshots/94113/7 "2017-07-21T13:29:43Z")
> [@colings86](#): > > Hmm actually the command I meant to write from the document was: > > GET /\_snapshot/my\_backup/\_all That one works! ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2017, 1:30pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/es-doesnt-show-list-of-snapshots/94113/8 "2017-08-18T13:30:18Z")
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