# Elastic search v2.3.1backup of an index and restoration

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-search-v2-3-1backup-of-an-index-and-restoration/74615>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [February 10, 2017, 8:00am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-search-v2-3-1backup-of-an-index-and-restoration/74615 "2017-02-10T08:00:24Z")\
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**Author:** ![Vishal\_Joshi](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/vishal_joshi/32/11991_2.png) [@Vishal\_Joshi](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Vishal_Joshi)\
**Post date:** [February 10, 2017, 8:00am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-search-v2-3-1backup-of-an-index-and-restoration/74615/1 "2017-02-10T08:00:24Z")

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Hi,

I am trying to create back up of one index in elastic search v2.3.1. the lucene version is 5.5.0.

While creating snapshot repository,

URI - `/_snapshot/my_backup`

```
     {
      "my_backup": {
        "type": "fs",
        "settings": {
          "compress": true,
          "location": "/mount/backups/my_backup"
        }
      }
    }

```

I get following error with response status code - 400 Bad request

```
{
  "error": {
    "root_cause": [
      {
        "type": "action_request_validation_exception",
        "reason": "Validation Failed: 1: type is missing;"
      }
    ],
    "type": "action_request_validation_exception",
    "reason": "Validation Failed: 1: type is missing;"
  },
  "status": 400
}

```

What am I doing wrong?

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**Author:** ![ywelsch](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/ywelsch/32/7751_2.png) [@ywelsch](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ywelsch)\
**Post date:** [February 10, 2017, 9:58am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-search-v2-3-1backup-of-an-index-and-restoration/74615/2 "2017-02-10T09:58:54Z")

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your request is malformed. Have a look at the docs:

[https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/2.3/modules-snapshots.html](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/2.3/modules-snapshots.html)

it should be

```auto
PUT /_snapshot/my_backup
{
  "type": "fs",
  "settings": {
        ... repository specific settings ...
  }
}

```

and not

```auto
PUT /_snapshot/my_backup
{
  "my_backup": {
      "type": "fs",
      "settings": {
             ... repository specific settings ...
      }
    }
}

```

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**Author:** ![Vishal\_Joshi](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/vishal_joshi/32/11991_2.png) [@Vishal\_Joshi](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Vishal_Joshi)\
**Post date:** [February 12, 2017, 2:24pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-search-v2-3-1backup-of-an-index-and-restoration/74615/3 "2017-02-12T14:24:59Z")

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Yup my bad! I realised it later.

Thank you for reverting.

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [March 12, 2017, 2:25pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-search-v2-3-1backup-of-an-index-and-restoration/74615/4 "2017-03-12T14:25:05Z")

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