diff --git a/x-pack/snapshot-tool/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/snapshots/AbstractRepository.java b/x-pack/snapshot-tool/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/snapshots/AbstractRepository.java
index b34b4e0ab84..d5f9e03ac67 100644
--- a/x-pack/snapshot-tool/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/snapshots/AbstractRepository.java
+++ b/x-pack/snapshot-tool/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/snapshots/AbstractRepository.java
@@ -94,9 +94,6 @@ public abstract class AbstractRepository {
                     LoggingDeprecationHandler.INSTANCE, out.bytes(), XContentType.JSON)) {
                 return incompatibleSnapshotsFromXContent(parser);
             }
-        } catch (IOException e) {
-            terminal.println("Failed to read [incompatible-snapshots] blob");
-            throw e;
         } catch (Exception e) {
             if (isBlobNotFoundException(e)) {
                 return Collections.emptyList();