# Failed to rotate backups

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/failed-to-rotate-backups/148532>\
**Category:** Beats\
**Tags:** filebeat\
**Created:** [September 13, 2018, 11:29pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/failed-to-rotate-backups/148532 "2018-09-13T23:29:08Z")\
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**Author:** ![Supriya\_Mahawadi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/839c29/32.png) [@Supriya\_Mahawadi](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Supriya_Mahawadi)\
**Post date:** [September 13, 2018, 11:29pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/failed-to-rotate-backups/148532/1 "2018-09-13T23:29:08Z")

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Hi  
I am getting error while installing filebeats ,can anyone help me in solving .This is my issue:

2018-09-13 16:15:29.1038005 -0700 PDT m=+0.297197001 write error: failed to rotate backups: rename C:\ELK stack\filebeat-6.4.0-windows-x86\_64\logs\filebeat C:\ELK stack\filebeat-6.4.0-windows-x86\_64\logs\filebeat.1: The process cannot access the file because it is being used by another process.

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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:** [October 11, 2018, 11:29pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/failed-to-rotate-backups/148532/2 "2018-10-11T23:29:13Z")

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