# Error in Repository Creation on Windows

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/error-in-repository-creation-on-windows/24518>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [June 29, 2015, 4:40am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/error-in-repository-creation-on-windows/24518 "2015-06-29T04:40:09Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:** ![tanveer3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ecae2f/32.png) [@tanveer3](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/tanveer3)\
**Post date:** [June 29, 2015, 4:40am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/error-in-repository-creation-on-windows/24518/1 "2015-06-29T04:40:09Z")

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Hi All,

I received the below error while creation of repository on Windows.

PUT [http://localhost:9200/\_snapshot/backup](http://localhost:9200/_snapshot/backup) -d  
{  
"type": "fs",  
"settings": {  
"location": "C:\Users\Downloads\elasticsearch-1.6.0\es\_backup\_folder"  
}  
}

Error Received  
......................  
{  
"error": "ElasticsearchParseException[Failed to derive xcontent from PUT [http://localhost:9200/\_snapshot/backup](http://localhost:9200/_snapshot/backup) -d \n{\n"type": "fs",\n"settings": {\n"location": "C:\\Users\\Downloads\\elasticsearch-1.6.0\\es\_backup\_folder"\n}\n}\n]",  
"status": 400  
}

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**Author:** ![dadoonet](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/dadoonet/32/137187_2.png) [@dadoonet](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dadoonet)\
**Post date:** [June 29, 2015, 4:57am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/error-in-repository-creation-on-windows/24518/2 "2015-06-29T04:57:44Z")

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Replace \ by /

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**Author:** ![tanveer3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ecae2f/32.png) [@tanveer3](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/tanveer3)\
**Post date:** [June 29, 2015, 5:01am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/error-in-repository-creation-on-windows/24518/3 "2015-06-29T05:01:59Z")

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Hi David

Received same error after doing changes to Single / and double //

PUT [http://localhost:9200/\_snapshot/backup](http://localhost:9200/_snapshot/backup) -d  
{  
"type": "fs",  
"settings": {  
"location": "C:/Users/Downloads/elasticsearch-1.6.0/es\_backup\_folder"}}

{  
"error": "ElasticsearchParseException[Failed to derive xcontent from PUT [http://localhost:9200/\_snapshot/backup](http://localhost:9200/_snapshot/backup) -d\n{\n"type": "fs",\n"settings": {\n"location": "C:/Users/Downloads/elasticsearch-1.6.0/es\_backup\_folder"}}\n]",  
"status": 400  
}

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**Author:** ![dadoonet](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/dadoonet/32/137187_2.png) [@dadoonet](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dadoonet)\
**Post date:** [June 29, 2015, 6:47am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/error-in-repository-creation-on-windows/24518/4 "2015-06-29T06:47:20Z")

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Remove `-d`

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**Author:** ![tanveer3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ecae2f/32.png) [@tanveer3](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/tanveer3)\
**Post date:** [June 29, 2015, 12:49pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/error-in-repository-creation-on-windows/24518/5 "2015-06-29T12:49:36Z")

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I removed -d and its working now, Thanks David.

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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:** [July 6, 2017, 12:04am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/error-in-repository-creation-on-windows/24518/6 "2017-07-06T00:04:48Z")

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