# Unable to create a new snapshot

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/unable-to-create-a-new-snapshot/174621>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [March 30, 2019, 1:18am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/unable-to-create-a-new-snapshot/174621 "2019-03-30T01:18:34Z")\
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**Author:** ![vamehta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/eb9ed0/32.png) [@vamehta](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/vamehta)\
**Post date:** [March 30, 2019, 1:18am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/unable-to-create-a-new-snapshot/174621/1 "2019-03-30T01:18:34Z")

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We are running 5.6.14 with 3 master and 8 data nodes. For some reason I am not able to create a new snapshot. I see this is one of the master node logs:  
[2019-03-29T20:13:51,535][WARN][o.e.s.SnapshotsService] [hostname] [s3\_prod\_repository][snapshot-03-29] failed to create snapshot  
org.elasticsearch.snapshots.ConcurrentSnapshotExecutionException: [s3\_prod\_repository:snapshot-03-29] a snapshot is already running  
at org.elasticsearch.snapshots.SnapshotsService$1.execute(SnapshotsService.java:266) ~[elasticsearch-5.6.14.jar:5.6.14]  
at org.elasticsearch.cluster.ClusterStateUpdateTask.execute(ClusterStateUpdateTask.java:45) ~[elasticsearch-5.6.14.jar:5.6.14]  
at org.elasticsearch.cluster.service.ClusterService.executeTasks(ClusterService.java:634) ~[elasticsearch-5.6.14.jar:5.6.14]  
at org.elasticsearch.cluster.service.ClusterService.calculateTaskOutputs(ClusterService.java:612) ~[elasticsearch-5.6.14.jar:5.6.14]  
at org.elasticsearch.cluster.service.ClusterService.runTasks(ClusterService.java:571) [elasticsearch-5.6.14.jar:5.6.14]  
at org.elasticsearch.cluster.service.ClusterService$ClusterServiceTaskBatcher.run(ClusterService.java:263) [elasticsearch-5.6.14.jar:5.6.14]  
at org.elasticsearch.cluster.service.TaskBatcher.runIfNotProcessed(TaskBatcher.java:150) [elasticsearch-5.6.14.jar:5.6.14]  
at org.elasticsearch.cluster.service.TaskBatcher$BatchedTask.run(TaskBatcher.java:188) [elasticsearch-5.6.14.jar:5.6.14]  
at org.elasticsearch.common.util.concurrent.ThreadContext$ContextPreservingRunnable.run(ThreadContext.java:576) [elasticsearch-5.6.14.jar:5.6.14]  
at org.elasticsearch.common.util.concurrent.PrioritizedEsThreadPoolExecutor$TieBreakingPrioritizedRunnable.runAndClean(PrioritizedEsThreadPoolExecutor.java:247) [elasticsearch-5.6.14.jar:5.6.14]  
at org.elasticsearch.common.util.concurrent.PrioritizedEsThreadPoolExecutor$TieBreakingPrioritizedRunnable.run(PrioritizedEsThreadPoolExecutor.java:210) [elasticsearch-5.6.14.jar:5.6.14]  
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1142) [?:1.8.0\_66]  
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:617) [?:1.8.0\_66]  
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:745) [?:1.8.0\_66]

I am trying to put that snapshot on S3 repo. There is no other snapshot running. When I asked for GET /\_snapshot/\_status, it says my snapshot has STARTED and it will also finish eventually. I restarted the entire cluster few times but still no luck. What could be wrong here?

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**Author:** ![vamehta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/eb9ed0/32.png) [@vamehta](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/vamehta)\
**Post date:** [March 30, 2019, 6:02am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/unable-to-create-a-new-snapshot/174621/2 "2019-03-30T06:02:51Z")

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One more thing we found is it is only happening when we specified wait\_for\_completion=true.

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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:** [April 27, 2019, 6:12am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/unable-to-create-a-new-snapshot/174621/3 "2019-04-27T06:12:46Z")

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