# For taking a snapshot using curator it is showing different results when i used it in cron job?

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/for-taking-a-snapshot-using-curator-it-is-showing-different-results-when-i-used-it-in-cron-job/80655>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [March 30, 2017, 10:54am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/for-taking-a-snapshot-using-curator-it-is-showing-different-results-when-i-used-it-in-cron-job/80655 "2017-03-30T10:54:34Z")\
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**Author:** ![Yaswanth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/94ad74/32.png) [@Yaswanth](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Yaswanth)\
**Post date:** [March 30, 2017, 10:54am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/for-taking-a-snapshot-using-curator-it-is-showing-different-results-when-i-used-it-in-cron-job/80655/1 "2017-03-30T10:54:34Z")

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Hi,

I use the curator in cron job for taking periodic snapshot, i kept cron job for every minute ,and send the output to another file. When i see the file, sometimes it is executing perfectly but sometimes it is not . I don't why?

FYI-My ES cluster is hosted in azure with 5 nodes consists each node in one VM.

```
admin@data-2:~/.curator$ cat logs.txt
2017-03-30 10:39:09,174 INFO Trying Action ID: 1, "snapshot": Snapshot logstash- prefixed indices older than 1 day (based on index creation_date) with the default snapshot name pattern of 'curator-%Y-%m%-d%'. Wait for the snapshot to complete. Do not skip the repository filesystem access check. Use the other options to create the snapshot.
2017-03-30 10:39:09,215 INFO DRY-RUN MODE. No changes will be made.
2017-03-30 10:39:09,215 INFO DRY-RUN: snapshot: curator-2017-03-30 in repository azure_backup with arguments: {'indices': u'car,vehicle', 'partial': False, 'ignore_unavailable': False, 'include_global_state': True}
2017-03-30 10:39:09,215 INFO Action ID: 1, "snapshot" completed.
2017-03-30 10:39:09,215 INFO Job completed.
2017-03-30 10:40:01,364 INFO Preparing Action ID: 1, "snapshot"
2017-03-30 10:41:01,361 INFO Preparing Action ID: 1, "snapshot"
2017-03-30 10:42:01,370 INFO Preparing Action ID: 1, "snapshot"

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For 10:39 It is executed fine but for 10:40,10:41 and 10:42 it is not good?

May be this is timeout field or due to lack of azure server performance ?

Thanks

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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:** [April 27, 2017, 10:54am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/for-taking-a-snapshot-using-curator-it-is-showing-different-results-when-i-used-it-in-cron-job/80655/2 "2017-04-27T10:54:33Z")

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