# Snapshot failed for a shard

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/snapshot-failed-for-a-shard/315794>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Tags:** snapshot-and-restore\
**Created:** [October 4, 2022, 2:59pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/snapshot-failed-for-a-shard/315794 "2022-10-04T14:59:23Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![DineshNaik](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/dineshnaik/32/89308_2.png) [@DineshNaik](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/DineshNaik)\
**Post date:** [October 4, 2022, 2:59pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/snapshot-failed-for-a-shard/315794/1 "2022-10-04T14:59:23Z")

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Hi all,  
I am trying to take a one time backup and was planning to restore it to other cluster.  
During snapshot , i see one failed shard , is there a way to handle this ?

```auto
{
  "snapshots" : [
    {
      "snapshot" : "snapshot_4oct",
      "repository" : "One_time_snapshot",
      "uuid" : "ng869MmBQoOQHBlOIVTZKw",
      "state" : "STARTED",
      "include_global_state" : true,
      "shards_stats" : {
        "initializing" : 0,
        "started" : 36,
        "finalizing" : 0,
        "done" : 23,
        "failed" : 1,
        "total" : 60
      },
      "stats" : {
        "incremental" : {
          "file_count" : 21654,
          "size_in_bytes" : 5882091474182
        },
        "processed" : {
          "file_count" : 11355,
          "size_in_bytes" : 2898029655511
        },
        "total" : {
          "file_count" : 21654,
          "size_in_bytes" : 5882091474182
        },
        "start_time_in_millis" : 1664865579098,
        "time_in_millis" : 29658393
      },
      "indices" : {
        "orders" : {
          "shards_stats" : {
            "initializing" : 0,
            "started" : 36,
            "finalizing" : 0,
            "done" : 23,
            "failed" : 1,
            "total" : 60
          },
          "stats" : {
            "incremental" : {
              "file_count" : 21654,
              "size_in_bytes" : 5882091474182
            },
            "processed" : {
              "file_count" : 11355,
              "size_in_bytes" : 2898029655511
            },
            "total" : {
              "file_count" : 21654,
              "size_in_bytes" : 5882091474182
            },
            "start_time_in_millis" : 1664865579233,
            "time_in_millis" : 28546984
          }

```

Do i need to cancel the current snapshot and take a new one?

Or can i continue with this so that remaining shards are done , and it can be retried somehow for one failed shard or probably take a new snapshot which can fix this ?

Any help would be appreciated .

Thank you

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**Author:** ![DineshNaik](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/dineshnaik/32/89308_2.png) [@DineshNaik](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/DineshNaik)\
**Post date:** [October 5, 2022, 6:09am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/snapshot-failed-for-a-shard/315794/2 "2022-10-05T06:09:02Z")

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Any update on this please ? Has anyone faced similar situation and tried incremental snapshot ?

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**Author:** ![warkolm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/warkolm/32/39224_2.png) [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)\
**Post date:** [October 5, 2022, 6:32am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/snapshot-failed-for-a-shard/315794/3 "2022-10-05T06:32:23Z")

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While we do our best, we don't provide SLAs to response times here so please have patience 🙂

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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:** [November 2, 2022, 6:33am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/snapshot-failed-for-a-shard/315794/4 "2022-11-02T06:33:00Z")

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