# How do I connect Elastic (using ECK + Azure) to snapshot repository using secondary storage account?

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-do-i-connect-elastic-using-eck-azure-to-snapshot-repository-using-secondary-storage-account/367266>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [September 27, 2024, 10:04pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-do-i-connect-elastic-using-eck-azure-to-snapshot-repository-using-secondary-storage-account/367266 "2024-09-27T22:04:18Z")\
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We use ECK + Azure.  
I am able to connect the pods to primary storage accounts, but I cannot figure out how to connect to the RA-GRS or just a GRS geo redundant storage (some times referred as blob\_secondary).

- I tried setting up private links in azure directly to the secondary storage. That does not seem to work.
- I tried using the "location\_mode" to "secondary\_only", that does not work.

Our site is in eastus2, I am trying to connect to westus2's GRS storage (west central).

Can some detail steps on how to accomplish this?