# Issue help - snapshot creation failure
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/issue-help-snapshot-creation-failure/81059
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [April 3, 2017, 10:14pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/issue-help-snapshot-creation-failure/81059 "2017-04-03T22:14:40Z")
**Posts on this page:** 7
**Page:** 2
### Author:  [@Letian](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Letian)
#### Post date: [April 5, 2017, 2:45am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/issue-help-snapshot-creation-failure/81059/21 "2017-04-05T02:45:52Z")
```
[2017-04-04 18:07:58,805][WARN][transport] [master] Transport response handler not found of id [2424]
[2017-04-04 18:07:58,808][WARN][transport] [master] Transport response handler not found of id [2425]
[2017-04-04 18:07:58,808][WARN][rest.suppressed] path: /_snapshot/backup, params: {repository=backup}
RepositoryVerificationException[[backup] [PD8oAfGZQuiO_zyVxuduKw, 'RemoteTransportException[[dataNode2][10.85.7.54:9300][internal:admin/repository/verify]]; nested: RepositoryMissingException[[backup] missing];'], [wDj7ox5RSf6XiAhd4LEUgQ, 'RemoteTransportException[[dataNode1][10.85.7.53:9300][internal:admin/repository/verify]]; nested: RepositoryMissingException[[backup] missing];']]]
at org.elasticsearch.repositories.RepositoriesService$VerifyingRegisterRepositoryListener$1.onResponse(RepositoriesService.java:440)
at org.elasticsearch.repositories.RepositoriesService$VerifyingRegisterRepositoryListener$1.onResponse(RepositoriesService.java:436)
at org.elasticsearch.repositories.RepositoriesService$3.onResponse(RepositoriesService.java:224)
at org.elasticsearch.repositories.RepositoriesService$3.onResponse(RepositoriesService.java:214)
at org.elasticsearch.repositories.VerifyNodeRepositoryAction.finishVerification(VerifyNodeRepositoryAction.java:116)
at org.elasticsearch.repositories.VerifyNodeRepositoryAction$1.handleException(VerifyNodeRepositoryAction.java:107)
at org.elasticsearch.transport.netty.MessageChannelHandler.handleException(MessageChannelHandler.java:184)
at org.elasticsearch.transport.netty.MessageChannelHandler.handlerResponseError(MessageChannelHandler.java:174)
at org.elasticsearch.transport.netty.MessageChannelHandler.messageReceived(MessageChannelHandler.java:122)
at org.jboss.netty.channel.SimpleChannelUpstreamHandler.handleUpstream(SimpleChannelUpstreamHandler.java:70)
at org.jboss.netty.channel.DefaultChannelPipeline.sendUpstream(DefaultChannelPipeline.java:564)
at org.jboss.netty.channel.DefaultChannelPipeline$DefaultChannelHandlerContext.sendUpstream(DefaultChannelPipeline.java:791)
at org.jboss.netty.channel.Channels.fireMessageReceived(Channels.java:296)
at org.jboss.netty.handler.codec.frame.FrameDecoder.unfoldAndFireMessageReceived(FrameDecoder.java:462)
at org.jboss.netty.handler.codec.frame.FrameDecoder.callDecode(FrameDecoder.java:443)
at org.jboss.netty.handler.codec.frame.FrameDecoder.messageReceived(FrameDecoder.java:303)
at org.jboss.netty.channel.SimpleChannelUpstreamHandler.handleUpstream(SimpleChannelUpstreamHandler.java:70)
at org.jboss.netty.channel.DefaultChannelPipeline.sendUpstream(DefaultChannelPipeline.java:564)
at org.jboss.netty.channel.DefaultChannelPipeline.sendUpstream(DefaultChannelPipeline.java:559)
at org.jboss.netty.channel.Channels.fireMessageReceived(Channels.java:268)
at org.jboss.netty.channel.Channels.fireMessageReceived(Channels.java:255)
at org.jboss.netty.channel.socket.nio.NioWorker.read(NioWorker.java:88)
at org.jboss.netty.channel.socket.nio.AbstractNioWorker.process(AbstractNioWorker.java:108)
at org.jboss.netty.channel.socket.nio.AbstractNioSelector.run(AbstractNioSelector.java:337)
at org.jboss.netty.channel.socket.nio.AbstractNioWorker.run(AbstractNioWorker.java:89)
at org.jboss.netty.channel.socket.nio.NioWorker.run(NioWorker.java:178)
at org.jboss.netty.util.ThreadRenamingRunnable.run(ThreadRenamingRunnable.java:108)
at org.jboss.netty.util.internal.DeadLockProofWorker$1.run(DeadLockProofWorker.java:42)
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1142)
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:617)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:745)
[2017-04-04 18:16:55,379][ERROR][license.plugin.core] [master]
#
# LICENSE EXPIRED ON [Sunday, December 11, 2016]. IF YOU HAVE A NEW LICENSE, PLEASE
# UPDATE IT. OTHERWISE, PLEASE REACH OUT TO YOUR SUPPORT CONTACT.
#
# COMMERCIAL PLUGINS OPERATING WITH REDUCED FUNCTIONALITY
# - marvel
# - The agent will stop collecting cluster and indices metrics
# - The agent will stop automatically cleaning indices older than [marvel.history.duration]
[2017-04-04 18:26:55,380][ERROR][license.plugin.core] [master]
```
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### Author:  [@Letian](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Letian)
#### Post date: [April 5, 2017, 2:47am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/issue-help-snapshot-creation-failure/81059/22 "2017-04-05T02:47:18Z")
I hope it won't get you too much trouble as I post the most recent logs and it was pretty big. I found there are some clues taking about the location which I have corrected to what you suggested but have no clue why they are still showing in that way. Let me know how you think about this.
Much appreciated.
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### Author:  [@Letian](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Letian)
#### Post date: [April 5, 2017, 5:06pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/issue-help-snapshot-creation-failure/81059/23 "2017-04-05T17:06:16Z")
Hi David,
I've posted the logs as you asked. Could you please take a look if
something can be figured out quickly?
Thanks a lot.
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### Author:  [@dadoonet](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dadoonet)
#### Post date: [April 19, 2017, 6:54am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/issue-help-snapshot-creation-failure/81059/24 "2017-04-19T06:54:33Z")
Apparently you tried to create a repository using `/var/log/elasticsearch/backup` dir but you whitelisted `/mnt/elasticsearch` in `path.repo`.
```auto
[2017-04-04 18:06:55,232][WARN][repositories.fs] [master] The specified location [/var/log/elasticsearch/backup] doesn't start with any repository paths specified by the path.repo setting: [[/mnt/elasticsearch]]
```
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### Author:  [@Letian](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Letian)
#### Post date: [April 19, 2017, 2:24pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/issue-help-snapshot-creation-failure/81059/25 "2017-04-19T14:24:35Z")
I have no idea why it comes up in this way - I actually set the repository and restarted all services. Then it still comes up in this way. Should I keep bouncing the services until it's succeeded?
Thansk.
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### Author:  [@dadoonet](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dadoonet)
#### Post date: [April 19, 2017, 5:12pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/issue-help-snapshot-creation-failure/81059/26 "2017-04-19T17:12:27Z")
So may be you registered previously a repository and the master node is trying to instantiate it at boot time?
You can probably delete it first.
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [May 17, 2017, 5:26pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/issue-help-snapshot-creation-failure/81059/27 "2017-05-17T17:26:02Z")
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