# Unnable to list snapshots in Elasticsearch repository

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/unnable-to-list-snapshots-in-elasticsearch-repository/271425>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Tags:** snapshot-and-restore\
**Created:** [April 27, 2021, 5:57pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/unnable-to-list-snapshots-in-elasticsearch-repository/271425 "2021-04-27T17:57:38Z")\
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**Author:** ![KA3AXCTAH](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/919ad9/32.png) [@KA3AXCTAH](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/KA3AXCTAH)\
**Post date:** [April 29, 2021, 9:46am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/unnable-to-list-snapshots-in-elasticsearch-repository/271425/11 "2021-04-29T09:46:06Z")

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and i have another snapshot repository ( separate dir on NFS share) that thorws this error when i'm try to list snaps  
and error the same as

> [@IOException when trying to create snapshot Unexpected end-of-input in VALUE\_STRING](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/ioexception-when-trying-to-create-snapshot-unexpected-end-of-input-in-value-string/258220):
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> We've a 6.8 elastisearch cluster using the gcp plugin to store snapshots running on a cron. We've been running a cron to periodically create snapshots of our elasticseearch 6.8 cluster using: http://...../\_snapshot/index-09-09-2020?wait\_for\_complatetion=true It's been working for a 1 year+ when we've started noticing snapshots failing from IOExceptions. "reason": "[gcp\_snapshots] could not read repository data from index blob", "caused\_by": { "type": "i\_o\_exception",…

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