# Creating Snapshot Repository on Windows cluster

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/creating-snapshot-repository-on-windows-cluster/23316>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [April 20, 2015, 8:57am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/creating-snapshot-repository-on-windows-cluster/23316 "2015-04-20T08:57:42Z")\
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**Author:** ![andrzejm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/bb73d2/32.png) [@andrzejm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/andrzejm)\
**Post date:** [May 13, 2016, 3:29pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/creating-snapshot-repository-on-windows-cluster/23316/7 "2016-05-13T15:29:01Z")

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I've posted answer here (it seems like duplicate questions):

> [@Can't create snapshot repository on Windows cluster](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/cant-create-snapshot-repository-on-windows-cluster/624/3):
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> Try to share the last directory directly like this: "location": "\\\\gbr-t-ess-003\\backup2" (just the server and the share) I have reproduced your issue, and then tried shorter path and succeeded. Hope it helps.

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