Repository-s3 not uploading snapshot to s3

[suratpyari]

Hi,

I am running Elasticsearch on eks cluster. for backup to s3 I have added repository-s3 plugin. When I run following command,

curl -X PUT "localhost:9200/_snapshot/my_s3_repository?pretty" -H 'Content-Type: application/json' -d'
{
  "type": "s3",
  "settings": {
    "bucket": "uat-k8-elasticsearch-bckup",
    "region": "ap-south-1",
    "endpoint": "s3.ap-south-1.amazonaws.com"
  }
}
'

I receive ..

{
  "acknowledged" : true
}

But there is no upload on s3. Let me know how I can debug it.

Thanks in advance.

[Armin_Braun]

Hi @suratpyari,

Did you also run snapshot creation in addition to creating the repository?
You need to do another call of the form:

PUT /_snapshot/my_s3_repository/snapshot_1?wait_for_completion=true

to actually create a snapshot in the repository you just created.

See the documentation here for details.

[suratpyari]

@suratpyari

my_s3_repository

This worked. Thanks a lot. Another question is do I need to change name 'my_s3_repository' for every backup or just changing name of snapshot_1 would work?

[Armin_Braun]

No problem!

Just changing the name of the snapshot (in this case snapshot_1) is all you need to do and in fact should do to make use of the incremental nature of snapshots per repository.