I talked to two of our NLS experts. They are pretty sure the backups are hosed.
Here is their suggestion:
Let me know if you can give that a try.is the first machine completely dead? If he can get elasticsearch started on that machine then there's a chance he could just spin up a new NLS(same version as the old) and create a cluster. That would sync the current indices over to the new machine...the old snapshotted data would still be a goner though
Thanks