# How to restore a snapshot taken in a 3 node cluster on to a fresh 3 node cluster setup
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-restore-a-snapshot-taken-in-a-3-node-cluster-on-to-a-fresh-3-node-cluster-setup/57838
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [August 11, 2016, 4:44pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-restore-a-snapshot-taken-in-a-3-node-cluster-on-to-a-fresh-3-node-cluster-setup/57838 "2016-08-11T16:44:57Z")
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### Author:  [@prasanna\_kumar](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/prasanna_kumar)
#### Post date: [August 11, 2016, 4:44pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-restore-a-snapshot-taken-in-a-3-node-cluster-on-to-a-fresh-3-node-cluster-setup/57838/1 "2016-08-11T16:44:57Z")
getting this error while resore
[31\_gu\_34\_s\_56\_1.365\_1][[31\_gu\_34\_s\_56\_1.365\_1][0]] IndexShardRestoreFailedException[failed to read shard snapshot file]; nested: NoSuchFileException[/root/backup/indices/31\_gu\_34\_s\_56\_1.365\_1/0/snap-31\_gu\_34\_s\_56\_1.365\_1\_2016-08-11\_18\_32\_14.dat];
at org.elasticsearch.index.snapshots.blobstore.BlobStoreIndexShardRepository$Context.loadSnapshot(BlobStoreIndexShardRepository.java:352)
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### Author:  [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)
#### Post date: [August 12, 2016, 1:27am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-restore-a-snapshot-taken-in-a-3-node-cluster-on-to-a-fresh-3-node-cluster-setup/57838/2 "2016-08-12T01:27:40Z")
Does the file exist then?
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 5, 2017, 10:28pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-restore-a-snapshot-taken-in-a-3-node-cluster-on-to-a-fresh-3-node-cluster-setup/57838/3 "2017-07-05T22:28:12Z")