# I want to create Snapshots of indices on External Hard Drive **URL:** \ **Category:** Elasticsearch\ **Tags:** snapshot-and-restore\ **Created:** [February 9, 2021, 7:37pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/i-want-to-create-snapshots-of-indices-on-external-hard-drive/263801 "2021-02-09T19:37:44Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Rohit\_Kumbhar](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/rohit_kumbhar/32/67682_2.png) [@Rohit\_Kumbhar](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Rohit_Kumbhar)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2021, 7:37pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/i-want-to-create-snapshots-of-indices-on-external-hard-drive/263801/1 "2021-02-09T19:37:44Z")
Hi , I have created NFS location in my cluster that is accessible from all the nodes. I checked it through terminal, The Repository has read and write both permissions. But when i create a repository from kibana terminal or dev tools i get following error `test] [[ZehcpwR6Qqe48yhIl_RcUw, 'RemoteTransportException[[kibana-data][192.168.140.16:9300][internal:admin/repository/verify]]; nested: RepositoryVerificationException[[test] store location [/mnt/node] is not accessible on the node [{kibana-data}{ZehcpwR6Qqe48yhIl_RcUw}{sLtnj5QjTdiBCKUwqlyUXw}{192.168.140.16}{192.168.140.16:9300}{dilrt}{ml.machine_memory=8201338880, xpack.installed=true, transform.node=true, ml.max_open_jobs=20}]]; nested: AccessDeniedException[/mnt/node/tests-n396HbR9Q-udjW7-pLcqLw/data-ZehcpwR6Qqe48yhIl_RcUw.dat];']]` ---
**Author:** ![warkolm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/warkolm/32/39224_2.png) [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2021, 12:34am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/i-want-to-create-snapshots-of-indices-on-external-hard-drive/263801/2 "2021-02-10T00:34:44Z")
> [@Rohit\_Kumbhar](#): > > AccessDeniedException That would suggest that the directory does not have the right permissions. ---
**Author:** ![Rohit\_Kumbhar](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/rohit_kumbhar/32/67682_2.png) [@Rohit\_Kumbhar](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Rohit_Kumbhar)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2021, 3:38am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/i-want-to-create-snapshots-of-indices-on-external-hard-drive/263801/3 "2021-02-10T03:38:03Z")
I gave` chmode -R 777 to directory` and also set `chown` as elasticsearch Please suggest what permissions are required Because i tried read write operation from other node via terminal it is working. ---
**Author:** ![warkolm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/warkolm/32/39224_2.png) [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2021, 4:05am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/i-want-to-create-snapshots-of-indices-on-external-hard-drive/263801/4 "2021-02-10T04:05:03Z")
What is the output from `ls -ld /mnt/node` and `mount`? ---
**Author:** ![Rohit\_Kumbhar](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/rohit_kumbhar/32/67682_2.png) [@Rohit\_Kumbhar](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Rohit_Kumbhar)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2021, 4:08am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/i-want-to-create-snapshots-of-indices-on-external-hard-drive/263801/5 "2021-02-10T04:08:00Z")
Following tis the output of `ls -ld /mnt/node` `192.168.140.15:/mnt/node 1.8T 1.6T 300G 84% /mnt/node` Following tis the output of `df -kh` Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on devtmpfs 7.8G 0 7.8G 0% /dev tmpfs 7.8G 0 7.8G 0% /dev/shm tmpfs 7.8G 793M 7.0G 10% /run tmpfs 7.8G 0 7.8G 0% /sys/fs/cgroup /dev/mapper/centos-root 1.8T 1.8T 101G 95% / /dev/vda2 50G 45G 5.4G 90% /boot tmpfs 1.6G 4.0K 1.6G 1% /run/user/42 tmpfs 1.6G 36K 1.6G 1% /run/user/0 ` 192.168.140.15:/mnt/node 1.8T 1.6T 300G 84% /mnt/node` Following is the output of `mount` `192.168.140.15:/mnt/node on /mnt/node type nfs4 (rw,relatime,vers=4.1,rsize=1048576,wsize=1048576,namlen=255,hard,proto=tcp,timeo=600,retrans=2,sec=sys,clientaddr=192.168.140.11,local_lock=none,addr=192.168.140.15)` ---
**Author:** ![Rohit\_Kumbhar](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/rohit_kumbhar/32/67682_2.png) [@Rohit\_Kumbhar](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Rohit_Kumbhar)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2021, 5:46am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/i-want-to-create-snapshots-of-indices-on-external-hard-drive/263801/6 "2021-02-10T05:46:18Z")
I got the problem In the data node when writing in the repo directory , instead of elasticsearch its writing with kibana user other node are taking elasticsearch only problem in kibana node. is their any linux command to change that I already `chown -R elasticsearch:elasticsearch to the directory` ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2021, 5:46am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/i-want-to-create-snapshots-of-indices-on-external-hard-drive/263801/7 "2021-03-10T05:46:30Z")
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