# Snapshots: State: Partial failure (?)
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/snapshots-state-partial-failure/260018
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [January 2, 2021, 12:56pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/snapshots-state-partial-failure/260018 "2021-01-02T12:56:27Z")
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### Author:  [@Rysiu](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Rysiu)
#### Post date: [January 2, 2021, 12:56pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/snapshots-state-partial-failure/260018/1 "2021-01-02T12:56:28Z")
Hello,
Example of a snapshot error in Elasticsearch:
> Global cluster state was stored, but at least one shard wasn't stored successfully...
>
> Shards: 10
> Failed Shards: 2
From what I understand, the system in this case has made a correct snapshot on 8 shards?
If I want to have 10/10 shard successfully, do I have to remove the old snapshot (partial failure) and make a new one from the beginning?
Is it possible to make a snapshot "complementary" to these 2 shards with a partial failure? The system would only complete the error shards.
How does it look like? 🙂
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### Author:  [@DavidTurner](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/DavidTurner)
#### Post date: [January 2, 2021, 12:59pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/snapshots-state-partial-failure/260018/2 "2021-01-02T12:59:12Z")
> [@Rysiu](#):
>
> Is it possible to make a snapshot "complementary" to these 2 shards with a partial failure? The system would only complete the error shards.
Yes, just take another snapshot. Elasticsearch will re-use any successfully-snapshotted data and will only copy to the repository anything that's missing.
Once you have a fully successful snapshot you can safely delete the partial one.
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [January 30, 2021, 12:59pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/snapshots-state-partial-failure/260018/3 "2021-01-30T12:59:36Z")
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