# Cluster dead, no snapshot available

**URL:** <https://forums.suse.com/t/cluster-dead-no-snapshot-available/39789>\
**Category:** SUSE Rancher Prime\
**Created:** [January 5, 2023, 6:54pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/cluster-dead-no-snapshot-available/39789 "2023-01-05T18:54:55Z")\
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**Author:** ![keith1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/6de8d8/32.png) [@keith1](https://forums.suse.com/u/keith1)\
**Post date:** [January 5, 2023, 6:54pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/cluster-dead-no-snapshot-available/39789/1 "2023-01-05T18:54:55Z")

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Hello, I had etcd mismatch errors and tried to restore etcd without a snapshot method with a single member which did not bring up the cluster. I dont know enough about Rancher to know if I can rebuild the cluster from scratch without loosing application data in the elastic search database running in containers. I have 6 elastic search nodes as workers and 5 capture servers with role of “all” for kubernetes in my cluster. I’m at the point i’m just not sure what to do as I can’t lose that elasticsearch data in the workers.  
any advice appreciated. In rancher gui , it cant find any snapshots other than the ones after it was broken.  
thanks

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**Author:** ![keith1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/6de8d8/32.png) [@keith1](https://forums.suse.com/u/keith1)\
**Post date:** [January 9, 2023, 3:54pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/cluster-dead-no-snapshot-available/39789/2 "2023-01-09T15:54:48Z")

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i found an old snapshot, renamed it to match the name the rancher gui wanted and all resolved, going to backup these snapshots to another server nightly.