diff --git a/CHANGES.txt b/CHANGES.txt
index d0d09930cc..0a6268ccc9 100644
--- a/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/CHANGES.txt
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 2.1.21
+ * Fix writing of snapshot manifest when the table has table-backed secondary indexes (CASSANDRA-10968)
  * Fix parse error in cqlsh COPY FROM and formatting for map of blobs (CASSANDRA-15679)
  * Paged Range Slice queries with DISTINCT can drop rows from results (CASSANDRA-14956)
  * Update release checksum algorithms to SHA-256, SHA-512 (CASSANDRA-14970)
diff --git a/src/java/org/apache/cassandra/db/ColumnFamilyStore.java b/src/java/org/apache/cassandra/db/ColumnFamilyStore.java
index 2989b9d6ea..df9b046d07 100644
--- a/src/java/org/apache/cassandra/db/ColumnFamilyStore.java
+++ b/src/java/org/apache/cassandra/db/ColumnFamilyStore.java
@@ -2335,9 +2335,9 @@ public class ColumnFamilyStore implements ColumnFamilyStoreMBean
      */
     public void snapshotWithoutFlush(String snapshotName, Predicate<SSTableReader> predicate, boolean ephemeral)
     {
+        final JSONArray filesJSONArr = new JSONArray();
         for (ColumnFamilyStore cfs : concatWithIndexes())
         {
-            final JSONArray filesJSONArr = new JSONArray();
             try (RefViewFragment currentView = cfs.selectAndReference(CANONICAL_SSTABLES))
             {
                 for (SSTableReader ssTable : currentView.sstables)
@@ -2352,10 +2352,9 @@ public class ColumnFamilyStore implements ColumnFamilyStoreMBean
                     if (logger.isDebugEnabled())
                         logger.debug("Snapshot for {} keyspace data file {} created in {}", keyspace, ssTable.getFilename(), snapshotDirectory);
                 }
-
-                writeSnapshotManifest(filesJSONArr, snapshotName);
             }
         }
+        writeSnapshotManifest(filesJSONArr, snapshotName);
         if (ephemeral)
             createEphemeralSnapshotMarkerFile(snapshotName);
     }
diff --git a/test/unit/org/apache/cassandra/db/ColumnFamilyStoreTest.java b/test/unit/org/apache/cassandra/db/ColumnFamilyStoreTest.java
index 35814f05e7..1fc202954d 100644
--- a/test/unit/org/apache/cassandra/db/ColumnFamilyStoreTest.java
+++ b/test/unit/org/apache/cassandra/db/ColumnFamilyStoreTest.java
@@ -19,6 +19,7 @@
 package org.apache.cassandra.db;
 
 import java.io.File;
+import java.io.FileReader;
 import java.io.IOException;
 import java.nio.ByteBuffer;
 import java.nio.charset.CharacterCodingException;
@@ -57,6 +58,9 @@ import org.apache.cassandra.thrift.SlicePredicate;
 import org.apache.cassandra.thrift.SliceRange;
 import org.apache.cassandra.thrift.ThriftValidation;
 import org.apache.cassandra.utils.*;
+import org.json.simple.JSONArray;
+import org.json.simple.JSONObject;
+import org.json.simple.parser.JSONParser;
 
 import static org.apache.cassandra.Util.cellname;
 import static org.apache.cassandra.Util.column;
@@ -2233,4 +2237,34 @@ public class ColumnFamilyStoreTest extends SchemaLoader
         
         PerRowSecondaryIndexTest.TestIndex.reset();
     }
+
+    @Test
+    public void testSnapshotWithoutFlushWithSecondaryIndexes() throws Exception
+    {
+        String keyspaceName = "Keyspace1";
+        String cfName = "Indexed1";
+        Keyspace keyspace = Keyspace.open(keyspaceName);
+        ColumnFamilyStore cfs = keyspace.getColumnFamilyStore(cfName);
+        cfs.truncateBlocking();
+
+        List<Mutation> rms = new LinkedList<>();
+        Mutation rm;
+
+        rm = new Mutation(keyspaceName, ByteBufferUtil.bytes("k1"));
+        rm.add(cfName, cellname("birthdate"), ByteBufferUtil.bytes(1L), 0);
+        rm.add(cfName, cellname("nobirthdate"), ByteBufferUtil.bytes(1L), 0);
+        rms.add(rm);
+        Util.writeColumnFamily(rms);
+
+        String snapshotName = "newSnapshot";
+        cfs.snapshotWithoutFlush(snapshotName);
+
+        File snapshotManifestFile = cfs.directories.getSnapshotManifestFile(snapshotName);
+        JSONParser parser = new JSONParser();
+        JSONObject manifest = (JSONObject) parser.parse(new FileReader(snapshotManifestFile));
+        JSONArray files = (JSONArray) manifest.get("files");
+
+        // Keyspace1-Indexed1 and the corresponding index CFS
+        assert files.size() == 2;
+    }
 }