# Snapshot operation stuck IN\_PROGRESS, delete command doesn't work

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/snapshot-operation-stuck-in-progress-delete-command-doesnt-work/36951>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [December 11, 2015, 8:13am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/snapshot-operation-stuck-in-progress-delete-command-doesnt-work/36951 "2015-12-11T08:13:29Z")\
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**Post date:** [November 4, 2016, 6:20pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/snapshot-operation-stuck-in-progress-delete-command-doesnt-work/36951/3 "2016-11-04T18:20:38Z")

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Hi --

I've seen this a couple of times, and have resolved it by running GET /\_snapshot/backup/\_status to get the details of the snapshot that is stuck in progress state and searching the output for "stage": "INIT". In each case, I found a shard in initializing (INIT) stage for one of the indices in the stuck snapshot. You'll see something like:

"your\_index"  
"3": {  
"stage": "INIT",  
"stats": {  
"number\_of\_files": 0,  
"processed\_files": 0,  
"total\_size\_in\_bytes": 0,  
"processed\_size\_in\_bytes": 0,  
"start\_time\_in\_millis": 1478143477100,  
"time\_in\_millis": 0  
},  
"node": "cwUM4qYuRxOpeOT51tyzkA"

You can then run Get \_nodes/stats to get the friendly name associated to that node value, and then restart only that node. That has worked twice for me.

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