Not able to take snapshot

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Hi everyone,

I pop in since I'm encountering the same problem.

I'm running Elasticsearch on a Ubuntu Server 12.04. I need to implement an automatic snapshot rotation and for this reason I tried to use curator in order to implement some sort of snapshot scheduler.

  1. I have added the following row inside the elasticsearch.yml file:

    path.repo: /var/backups/elasticsearch/

  2. Changed the permissions for the aforementioned folder (so that every user can read/write it/in it):

    sudo chmod -R 777 /var/backups/elasticsearch/

  3. Run the following command:

curl -XPUT 'http://localhost:9200/_snapshot/backup' -d '{
"type": "fs",
"settings": {
"location": "/var/backups/elasticsearch/",
"compress": true
}
}'

  1. Checked whether the repository was created correctly:

    curl -XGET 'http://localhost:9200/_snapshot/backup?pretty'

    {
    "backup" : {
    "type" : "fs",
    "settings" : {
    "compress" : "true",
    "location" : "/var/backups/elasticsearch/"
    }
    }
    }

  2. Tried to create a snapshot through curator but I get the following error:

    curator snapshot --repository backup indices --all-indices --exclude kibana-int

    2015-07-09 17:42:52,529 INFO Job starting: snapshot indices
    2015-07-09 17:42:52,529 WARNING Overriding default connection timeout. New timeout: 21600
    2015-07-09 17:42:52,549 INFO Matching all indices. Ignoring flags other than --exclude.
    2015-07-09 17:42:52,594 ERROR Failed to verify all nodes have repository access.
    2015-07-09 17:42:52,595 WARNING Job did not complete successfully.

The paths are correct, the permissions too. I honestly have no idea about what's wrong there.
I've tried to run the script in --dry-run mode and it "works" correctly.
Any suggestion?

Thank you very much
Alessandro

ps, I tried to create a snapshot manually with the following command:

curl -XPUT "localhost:9200/_snapshot/backup/test?wait_for_completion=true"

and it was created correctly