# Snapshot overwrite and failure recovery

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/snapshot-overwrite-and-failure-recovery/63652>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [October 21, 2016, 9:30pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/snapshot-overwrite-and-failure-recovery/63652 "2016-10-21T21:30:43Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![arpan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e480ec/32.png) [@arpan](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/arpan)\
**Post date:** [October 21, 2016, 9:30pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/snapshot-overwrite-and-failure-recovery/63652/1 "2016-10-21T21:30:43Z")

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if a snapshot fails or gets stopped for whatever reason halfway through, if I launch another snapshot with the same name would it overwrite the first one?

Or do I need to explicitly delete before retrying after sometime with the same name?

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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:** [July 5, 2017, 10:10pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/snapshot-overwrite-and-failure-recovery/63652/2 "2017-07-05T22:10:24Z")

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Closed on July 5, 2017, 10:10pm UTC