# Snapshot\_missing\_exception when deleting multiple snapshots
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/snapshot-missing-exception-when-deleting-multiple-snapshots/266834
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [March 10, 2021, 4:06pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/snapshot-missing-exception-when-deleting-multiple-snapshots/266834 "2021-03-10T16:06:15Z")
**Posts on this page:** 10
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### Author:  [@Norman\_Khine](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Norman_Khine)
#### Post date: [March 10, 2021, 4:06pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/snapshot-missing-exception-when-deleting-multiple-snapshots/266834/1 "2021-03-10T16:06:15Z")
Hello, from the documentation, [Delete a snapshot | Elasticsearch Reference [7.11] | Elastic](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/delete-snapshots.html) I am trying to delete multiple snapshots, but get an error:
```auto
{
"error" : {
"root_cause" : [
{
"type" : "snapshot_missing_exception",
"reason" : "[esbackup-elk-prod:20200124031645,20200125031645] is missing"
}
],
"type" : "snapshot_missing_exception",
"reason" : "[esbackup-elk-prod:20200124031645,20200125031645] is missing"
},
"status" : 404
}
```
I am running the following from the Kibana console
```auto
DELETE /_snapshot/esbackup-elk-prod/20200124031645,20200125031645
```
if I run it on individual snapshot, this works, so
```auto
DELETE /_snapshot/esbackup-elk-prod/20200124031645
```
Any advice is much appreciated
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### Author:  [@DavidTurner](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/DavidTurner)
#### Post date: [March 10, 2021, 10:01pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/snapshot-missing-exception-when-deleting-multiple-snapshots/266834/2 "2021-03-10T22:01:10Z")
The docs you link are for 7.11. Is that the version you're using?
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### Author:  [@Norman\_Khine](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Norman_Khine)
#### Post date: [March 11, 2021, 4:48am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/snapshot-missing-exception-when-deleting-multiple-snapshots/266834/3 "2021-03-11T04:48:10Z")
I am using version 7.9 which has the same API call [Delete a snapshot | Elasticsearch Reference [7.x] | Elastic](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/7.x/delete-snapshots.html)
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### Author:  [@DavidTurner](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/DavidTurner)
#### Post date: [March 11, 2021, 7:02am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/snapshot-missing-exception-when-deleting-multiple-snapshots/266834/4 "2021-03-11T07:02:41Z")
Hmm I can't see a way to get this error message in any of the 7.9.x versions. Can you share the output of `GET /_cat/nodes?h=n,v` to verify exactly which version(s) you are using?
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### Author:  [@Norman\_Khine](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Norman_Khine)
#### Post date: [March 19, 2021, 7:49am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/snapshot-missing-exception-when-deleting-multiple-snapshots/266834/5 "2021-03-19T07:49:10Z")
> [@DavidTurner](#):
>
> /\_cat/nodes?h=n,v
```auto
khine@dhegdheer ~ curl -X GET 'https://es-cluster/_cat/nodes?h=n,v' ✔ 10632 07:45:59
409992bfb2253150f1663d6c447268bf 7.7.0
70a3ad17bbde8477461ac1ede4883d5f 7.7.0
265ef5b613b158c738904ab2bb42f5ac 7.7.0
49f176dd9efda0580f02682bee74b6e3 7.7.0
45308337dfcb7b51d4f20f83ef82896e 7.7.0
e1e258089f61e55fc67865c19754d5cd 7.7.0
a8156ae9d4d9e394b06c416eded832e9 7.7.0
b4c458e3ad3d1fab552cc60319fd73d3 7.7.0
521b3aa1ec901492f5b14307fca02d0b 7.7.0
01e87927f72eecf1734a15985d755a24 7.7.0
f44eb0392530741363516c604d618d95 7.7.0
```
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### Author:  [@DavidTurner](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/DavidTurner)
#### Post date: [March 19, 2021, 8:16am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/snapshot-missing-exception-when-deleting-multiple-snapshots/266834/6 "2021-03-19T08:16:47Z")
You said you were using 7.9 but this tells us you are using 7.7.0, in which the delete snapshot API is different -- see the docs at the bottom of [Take a snapshot of one or more indices | Elasticsearch Reference [7.7] | Elastic](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/7.7/snapshots-take-snapshot.html) and note that there's nothing to indicate `DELETE /_snapshot/esbackup-elk-prod/20200124031645,20200125031645` should work in this version.
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### Author:  [@Norman\_Khine](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Norman_Khine)
#### Post date: [March 19, 2021, 9:47am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/snapshot-missing-exception-when-deleting-multiple-snapshots/266834/7 "2021-03-19T09:47:30Z")
Hi, sorry, from [Delete a snapshot | Elasticsearch Reference [7.x] | Elastic](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/7.x/delete-snapshots.html) shows that `DELETE /_snapshot/esbackup-elk-prod/20200124031645,20200125031645` should work for `7.x`
thanks
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### Author:  [@DavidTurner](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/DavidTurner)
#### Post date: [March 19, 2021, 10:12am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/snapshot-missing-exception-when-deleting-multiple-snapshots/266834/8 "2021-03-19T10:12:02Z")
Note the warning, highlighted in yellow, at the top of that page:
> You are looking at preliminary documentation for a future release. Not what you want? See the [current release documentation](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/index.html).
You are not using `7.x`, you are using `7.7.0`, so the `7.x` docs do not apply.
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### Author:  [@Norman\_Khine](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Norman_Khine)
#### Post date: [March 22, 2021, 9:15am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/snapshot-missing-exception-when-deleting-multiple-snapshots/266834/9 "2021-03-22T09:15:40Z")
ok, thank you
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [April 19, 2021, 9:16am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/snapshot-missing-exception-when-deleting-multiple-snapshots/266834/10 "2021-04-19T09:16:34Z")
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