# Snapshot S3 backup failing

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/snapshot-s3-backup-failing/57839>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [August 11, 2016, 4:57pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/snapshot-s3-backup-failing/57839 "2016-08-11T16:57:43Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 7\
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**Author:** ![genesis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/96bed5/32.png) [@genesis](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/genesis)\
**Post date:** [August 11, 2016, 4:57pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/snapshot-s3-backup-failing/57839/1 "2016-08-11T16:57:43Z")

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I have been doing daily backup to AWS S3 bucket for quite a while now. For some reason backup started to fail since last night, any idea what these errors mean?

sudo curl -XPUT "localhost:9200/\_snapshot/s3\_backup/snapshot\_myindex\_2016\_08\_10?wait\_for\_completion=true" -d '{

> "indices": "myindex-2016.\*",  
> "include\_global\_state": false }'  
> {"error":"RemoteTransportException[[RTD-Elasticsearch-02][inet[/10.10.xx.xx:9300]][cluster:admin/snapshot/create]]; nested: ProcessClusterEventTimeoutException[failed to process cluster event (create\_snapshot[snapshot\_myindex\_2016\_08\_10]) within 30s]; ","status":503}

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**Author:** ![genesis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/96bed5/32.png) [@genesis](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/genesis)\
**Post date:** [August 11, 2016, 4:58pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/snapshot-s3-backup-failing/57839/2 "2016-08-11T16:58:22Z")

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I am on elasticsearch 1.7.1

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**Author:** ![genesis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/96bed5/32.png) [@genesis](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/genesis)\
**Post date:** [August 24, 2016, 2:31pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/snapshot-s3-backup-failing/57839/3 "2016-08-24T14:31:33Z")

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Please help, still experiencing this problem  
Thanks

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**Author:** ![dadoonet](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/dadoonet/32/137187_2.png) [@dadoonet](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dadoonet)\
**Post date:** [August 24, 2016, 3:49pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/snapshot-s3-backup-failing/57839/4 "2016-08-24T15:49:18Z")

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Don't you have more details in logs?

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**Author:** ![genesis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/96bed5/32.png) [@genesis](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/genesis)\
**Post date:** [August 24, 2016, 4:02pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/snapshot-s3-backup-failing/57839/5 "2016-08-24T16:02:15Z")

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RTD.log.2016-08-13:org.elasticsearch.cluster.metadata.ProcessClusterEventTimeoutException: failed to process cluster event (index-aliases) within 30s  
RTD.log.2016-08-13- at org.elasticsearch.cluster.service.InternalClusterService$2$1.run(InternalClusterService.java:278)  
.log.2016-08-13- at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1142)  
RTD.log.2016-08-13- at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:617)  
RTD.log.2016-08-13- at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:745)

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**Author:** ![rolandino](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e36b37/32.png) [@rolandino](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/rolandino)\
**Post date:** [August 24, 2016, 4:05pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/snapshot-s3-backup-failing/57839/6 "2016-08-24T16:05:35Z")

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Could you try taking a snapshot that doesn't snapshot to S3? So, to local file.

That way you can try to get some insight as to whether the problem is related to S3, the S3 plugin, or your ES installation.

See: [https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/modules-snapshots.html](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/modules-snapshots.html)  
As to why it's suddenly change ... there could of course be many reasons.

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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, 10:25pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/snapshot-s3-backup-failing/57839/7 "2017-07-05T22:25:27Z")

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