# "Error: no progress from leader, backup metadata not found"

**URL:** <https://forums.percona.com/t/error-no-progress-from-leader-backup-metadata-not-found/13290>\
**Category:** Percona Backup for MongoDB\
**Created:** [November 30, 2021, 6:56pm UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/error-no-progress-from-leader-backup-metadata-not-found/13290 "2021-11-30T18:56:43Z")\
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**Post date:** [November 30, 2021, 6:56pm UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/error-no-progress-from-leader-backup-metadata-not-found/13290/1 "2021-11-30T18:56:43Z")

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While trying to resolve

> [@PBM backup failed](https://forums.percona.com/t/pbm-backup-failed/12942):
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> Hello. I am trying to backup mongodb using pbm-backup. The base is over 400GB and running on a kubernetes cluster. The setup consists of: 2 date (replicaset) 2 config (replicaset) 1 arbiter 1 manager/router bash-4.2$ pbm status Cluster: ======== configrs: - configrs/config1:27017: pbm-agent v1.6.0 OK - configrs/config2:27017: pbm-agent v1.6.0 OK datars: - datars/data1:27017: pbm-agent v1.6.0 OK - datars/data2:27017: pbm-agent v1.6.0 OK After a few hours making backup i heve err…

I started getting the following message when starting a new backup:  
“Error: no progress from leader, backup metadata not found”

Between the attempts to solve backups issues, there was a replacement of primary node to other server (without issues from mongodb availability), when cluster was all-good I tried to run pbm backup, which returns that error message, I was unable to find it on, docs, forum or google.  
Also pbm-agent was updated to 1.6.1 on all 3 replica nodes.

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**Author:** ![robertomurta](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forums.percona.com/robertomurta/32/4905_2.png) [@robertomurta](https://forums.percona.com/u/robertomurta)\
**Post date:** [November 30, 2021, 8:47pm UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/error-no-progress-from-leader-backup-metadata-not-found/13290/2 "2021-11-30T20:47:30Z")

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> [@robertomurta](#):
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> no progress from leader, backup metadata not found

Interestingly I wasn’t able to even find source code for the error message.  
The solution: Restart pbm-agents services on each node.