# Recover etcd kubernetes

**URL:** <https://forums.suse.com/t/recover-etcd-kubernetes/3693>\
**Category:** General\
**Created:** [August 13, 2016, 1:00pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/recover-etcd-kubernetes/3693 "2016-08-13T13:00:33Z")\
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**Author:** ![Sasha\_Bochkin](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/user_avatar/forums.suse.com/sasha_bochkin/32/1541_2.png) [@Sasha\_Bochkin](https://forums.suse.com/u/Sasha_Bochkin)\
**Post date:** [August 13, 2016, 1:00pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/recover-etcd-kubernetes/3693/1 "2016-08-13T13:00:33Z")

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After two weeks of normal operation, my kubernetes cluster stopped working compaining to etcd\_1

`8/13/2016 3:57:07 PM2016-08-13 12:57:07.185065 I | raft: d884709ae7327d50 is starting a new election at term 284679 8/13/2016 3:57:07 PM2016-08-13 12:57:07.185145 I | raft: d884709ae7327d50 became candidate at term 284680 8/13/2016 3:57:07 PM2016-08-13 12:57:07.185163 I | raft: d884709ae7327d50 received vote from d884709ae7327d50 at term 284680 8/13/2016 3:57:07 PM2016-08-13 12:57:07.185180 I | raft: d884709ae7327d50 [logterm: 570, index: 2213890] sent vote request to 80724d2907b90ef1 at term 284680 8/13/2016 3:57:08 PM2016-08-13 12:57:08.785109 I | raft: d884709ae7327d50 is starting a new election at term 284680 8/13/2016 3:57:08 PM2016-08-13 12:57:08.785186 I | raft: d884709ae7327d50 became candidate at term 284681 8/13/2016 3:57:08 PM2016-08-13 12:57:08.785195 I | raft: d884709ae7327d50 received vote from d884709ae7327d50 at term 284681 8/13/2016 3:57:08 PM2016-08-13 12:57:08.785206 I | raft: d884709ae7327d50 [logterm: 570, index: 2213890] sent vote request to 80724d2907b90ef1 at term 284681 8/13/2016 3:57:08 PM2016-08-13 12:57:08.916894 E | etcdserver: publish error: etcdserver: request timed out 8/13/2016 3:57:08 PM2016-08-13 12:57:08.942930 E | etcdhttp: got unexpected response error (etcdserver: request timed out) [merged 2 repeated lines in 2s] 8/13/2016 3:57:10 PM2016-08-13 12:57:10.085109 I | raft: d884709ae7327d50 is starting a new election at term 284681 8/13/2016 3:57:10 PM2016-08-13 12:57:10.085151 I | raft: d884709ae7327d50 became candidate at term 284682 8/13/2016 3:57:10 PM2016-08-13 12:57:10.085159 I | raft: d884709ae7327d50 received vote from d884709ae7327d50 at term 284682 8/13/2016 3:57:10 PM2016-08-13 12:57:10.085318 I | raft: d884709ae7327d50 [logterm: 570, index: 2213890] sent vote request to 80724d2907b90ef1 at term 284682 8/13/2016 3:57:10 PM2016-08-13 12:57:10.942894 E | etcdhttp: got unexpected response error (etcdserver: request timed out) [merged 2 repeated lines in 2s] 8/13/2016 3:57:11 PM2016-08-13 12:57:11.485102 I | raft: d884709ae7327d50 is starting a new election at term 284682 8/13/2016 3:57:11 PM2016-08-13 12:57:11.485157 I | raft: d884709ae7327d50 became candidate at term 284683`

It not available and kubectl also shows:

client: etcd cluster is unavailable or misconfigured

How to recover the etcd? It doesn’t look self healing.

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**Author:** ![meggar](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/user_avatar/forums.suse.com/meggar/32/2853_2.png) [@meggar](https://forums.suse.com/u/meggar)\
**Post date:** [March 2, 2017, 7:13am UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/recover-etcd-kubernetes/3693/2 "2017-03-02T07:13:56Z")

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Hi, & is this problem resolved?

I am also curious about if Rancher has a copy of ETCD registry of Kubernetes? If that’s true the ETCD cluster can be recreated if it is down…