# Error when creating a Snapshot Repository

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/error-when-creating-a-snapshot-repository/152587>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [October 16, 2018, 5:12am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/error-when-creating-a-snapshot-repository/152587 "2018-10-16T05:12:06Z")\
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**Author:** ![DavidTurner](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/davidturner/32/22453_2.png) [@DavidTurner](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/DavidTurner)\
**Post date:** [October 16, 2018, 7:43am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/error-when-creating-a-snapshot-repository/152587/2 "2018-10-16T07:43:06Z")

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It's better to share the whole stack trace of the exception and the whole error message - even though they can be quite long, they also include useful information.

I'm going to guess that the Elasticsearch process is not running as the same _numerical_ UID or GID on each node, and your NFS configuration does not compensate for this, meaning that when one node creates a subdirectory of the repository it is not possible for the other nodes to modify it.

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