# Multiples snapshot repositories

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/multiples-snapshot-repositories/162705>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [January 2, 2019, 7:46pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/multiples-snapshot-repositories/162705 "2019-01-02T19:46:50Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![Joao\_Claudio](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/joao_claudio/32/39370_2.png) [@Joao\_Claudio](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Joao_Claudio)\
**Post date:** [January 2, 2019, 7:46pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/multiples-snapshot-repositories/162705/1 "2019-01-02T19:46:50Z")

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Greetings,

I already have a S3 bucket with one repository with my snapshots of one my elasticsearch cluster. But I have another cluster and I would like to use this S3 to register another snapshot repo. Its is possible?

Or its better to use the same repo with a different name of the snapshots?

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**Author:** ![DavidTurner](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/davidturner/32/22453_2.png) [@DavidTurner](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/DavidTurner)\
**Post date:** [January 3, 2019, 8:34am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/multiples-snapshot-repositories/162705/2 "2019-01-03T08:34:06Z")

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The [docs](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/modules-snapshots.html#_repositories) say:

> If you register same snapshot repository with multiple clusters, only one cluster should have write access to the repository. All other clusters connected to that repository should set the repository to `readonly` mode.

You can have two repositories in the same S3 bucket using the [`base_path` property](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/plugins/6.5/repository-s3-repository.html). But it is very important that each repository only ever has one cluster writing to it.

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**Author:** ![Joao\_Claudio](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/joao_claudio/32/39370_2.png) [@Joao\_Claudio](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Joao_Claudio)\
**Post date:** [January 3, 2019, 9:00am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/multiples-snapshot-repositories/162705/3 "2019-01-03T09:00:03Z")

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Thanks for the help David!

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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:** [January 31, 2019, 9:00am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/multiples-snapshot-repositories/162705/4 "2019-01-31T09:00:03Z")

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