Having trouble creating Elasticsearch Snapshot Repository

[yashverma]

I want to create snapshot repository in order to backup elasticsearch indices locally. However I am getting error messages, I think I am not giving correct path in location. I have posted screenshots for better explanation.

This is my docker-compose yaml file

and this is elasticsearch configuration file. I get the following error

I am following this link for setting up my repository. Any suggestion would be of great help.
I am a bit new to elasticsearch so pardon my ignorance

[warkolm (Mark Walkom)]

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[Divyank_Garg]

Hi Warkolm,
What is the possible way to keep backup of index data and restore it later. I think Yash is trying to use ELK service via docker container.

[warkolm (Mark Walkom)]

Snapshot and restore is the best.

[yashverma]

Hi Warkolm,
We know that is the best solution, can you provide some reference link or some github repos for this snapshot restore solution using docker-compose file because we are getting error in the docker file as mentioned in the screenshot above.

[Christian_Dahlqvist]

As far as I can see the error indicates a syntax error in the configuration for the first volume.

[Divyank_Garg]

Hi Christian,
Are you talking about /mnt/data/collab/backup: /usr/share/elasticsearch/backup ? Here /mnt/data/collab/backup is the directory created by us.

[yashverma]

Hi Chistian,
Thank you for pointing that out, I have changed the yaml file and provided the path.repo under environment.
"
environment:
path.repo: /mnt/data/collab/backup_repo
"
While running the docker services it says Access denied, the following is the error message

"
java.lang.IllegalStateException: Unable to access 'path.repo' (/mnt/data/collab/backup_repo)
Likely root cause: java.nio.file.AccessDeniedException: /mnt/data
at java.base/sun.nio.fs.UnixException.translateToIOException(UnixException.java:90)
"
I have already provided root access to the "backup_repo" folder

drwxrwxrwx 2 root root 4096 Aug 16 00:17 backup_repo

Can you help to resolve it.

[cheshirecat (Krzysztof Smaga)]

Hello,
First of all: please use code tag for code/configs.

Secondly: you gave permissions to directory at all nodes? Is at all node path.repo the same path?
In error stack you got:

Likely root cause: java.nio.file.AccessDeniedException: /mnt/data

Are permissions ok for this directory?
Could you please do:

ls -lah /mnt/data

?

[Divyank_Garg]

Hi,
We are using 1 node of elasticsearch only and given- path.repo: ["/mnt/data/collab/backup_repo"] in elasticsearch.yml
As mentioned the path has read and write access:

ls -lah /mnt/data/
drwxrwxrwx 3 root root 4.0K Jul 19 01:29 .
drwxrwxrwx 3 root root 4.0K Jul 19 00:31 ..
drwxrwxrwx 14 root root 4.0K Aug 18 01:24 collab