# Elasticsearch snaphot

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-snaphot/118687>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [February 6, 2018, 4:59pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-snaphot/118687 "2018-02-06T16:59:39Z")\
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**Author:** ![Bobin\_Jose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Bobin\_Jose](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Bobin_Jose)\
**Post date:** [February 6, 2018, 4:59pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-snaphot/118687/1 "2018-02-06T16:59:39Z")

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I am trying to take snapshot of the indices,the snapshot seems to be completed without any error.But snapshot shows empty..

[root@test-9c4b58584-c257l /]# curl -u admin:\*\*\* -XPUT '[http://elasticsearch:9200/\_snapshot/backup?pretty](http://elasticsearch:9200/_snapshot/backup?pretty)' -H 'Content-Type: application/json' -d'

> {  
> "type": "fs",  
> "settings": {  
> "location": "/mnt/backup",  
> "compress": true  
> }  
> }  
> '  
> {  
> "acknowledged" : true  
> }  
> [root@test-9c4b58584-c257l /]# curl -u admin:\*\*\* -XGET 'elasticsearch:9200/\_snapshot/\_status?pretty'  
> {  
> "snapshots" :   
> }  
> [root@test-9c4b58584-c257l /]#

Anything wrong?

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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 6, 2018, 4:59pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-snaphot/118687/2 "2018-03-06T16:59:45Z")

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