# Vault doesn't Initialize with Auto-unseal using Transit Secrets Engine #480

**URL:** <https://discuss.hashicorp.com/t/vault-doesnt-initialize-with-auto-unseal-using-transit-secrets-engine-480/22540>\
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**Created:** [March 26, 2021, 2:03pm UTC](https://discuss.hashicorp.com/t/vault-doesnt-initialize-with-auto-unseal-using-transit-secrets-engine-480/22540 "2021-03-26T14:03:40Z")\
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Configured Vault using Auto-unseal using Transit Secrets Engine.

As mentioned in the following doc I’ve configured multiple vaults and everything seems to be working fine.

> **[Auto-unseal using Transit Secrets Engine | Vault - HashiCorp Learn](https://learn.hashicorp.com/tutorials/vault/autounseal-transit?in=vault%2Fauto-unseal)**
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Vault A ( This is configured to use for unsealing the Vault B as mentioned in the above doc )  
Vault B ( This is the actual vault where we store stuff… )

After Vault is up and running I tried the validating the following scenario.

What if I lost the unseal vault server (Vault A )?

- I got to know that we can recover the vault server ( Vault B ) with the **recovery key** which we get while initializing vault ( Vault B ).
- In Vault server ( Vault B) first I tried sealing the vault manually, unsealing it using recovery key and this worked fine. ✔
- Now I stopped the unseal vault server ( Vault A) and restarted the vault server ( Vault B ) and trying to unseal it with recovery key ( which i got when vault B is initialized ) gives me connection refused.

I believe vault should come up with initialized, sealed mode so that I can unseal with the recovery key but that doesn’t seems to happen in my case.

Am i missing anything here ?