# Getting error when adding the repository for backup

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/getting-error-when-adding-the-repository-for-backup/155927>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [November 8, 2018, 4:32pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/getting-error-when-adding-the-repository-for-backup/155927 "2018-11-08T16:32:26Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![vnallamothu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/35a633/32.png) [@vnallamothu](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/vnallamothu)\
**Post date:** [November 8, 2018, 4:32pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/getting-error-when-adding-the-repository-for-backup/155927/1 "2018-11-08T16:32:26Z")

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I am getting following error while configuring/adding the repository for backup:

> {  
> "error": {  
> "root\_cause": [  
> {  
> "type": "repository\_verification\_exception",  
> "reason": "[es62\_s3\_repository] [[VZD6lm2UQU29T-vlW8fscw, 'RemoteTransportException[[es6-data-06][private\_ip:9300][internal:admin/repository/verify]]; nested: RepositoryMissingException[[es62\_s3\_repository] missing];']]"  
> }  
> ],  
> "type": "repository\_verification\_exception",  
> "reason": "[es62\_s3\_repository] [[VZD6lm2UQU29T-vlW8fscw, 'RemoteTransportException[[es6-data-06][private\_ip:9300][internal:admin/repository/verify]]; nested: RepositoryMissingException[[es62\_s3\_repository] missing];']]"  
> },  
> "status": 500  
> }

Can anyone help me what is going on?

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**Author:** ![Tek\_Chand](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/tek_chand/32/34318_2.png) [@Tek\_Chand](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Tek_Chand)\
**Post date:** [November 16, 2018, 6:06am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/getting-error-when-adding-the-repository-for-backup/155927/2 "2018-11-16T06:06:09Z")

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@vnallamothu, Can you please provide the settings of your s3 repository which are you trying?

Your setting should be look like below:

```auto
PUT _snapshot/my_s3_repository
{
  "type": "s3",
  "settings": {
    "bucket": "my_bucket_name",
    "region": "eu-central"
  }
}

```

Hope so above settings will help you.

Thanks.

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**Author:** ![vnallamothu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/35a633/32.png) [@vnallamothu](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/vnallamothu)\
**Post date:** [November 16, 2018, 3:05pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/getting-error-when-adding-the-repository-for-backup/155927/3 "2018-11-16T15:05:35Z")

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@Tek_Chand, Thank you for the response. I was able to figure out the error. I didn't install S3 repository plugin on one of my newly added data nodes. After installing it and having my node restarted, I was able to backup my data.

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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:** [December 14, 2018, 3:05pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/getting-error-when-adding-the-repository-for-backup/155927/4 "2018-12-14T15:05:40Z")

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Closed on December 14, 2018, 3:05pm UTC

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