# Repository-s3 not uploading snapshot to s3

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/repository-s3-not-uploading-snapshot-to-s3/206532>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [November 5, 2019, 7:13am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/repository-s3-not-uploading-snapshot-to-s3/206532 "2019-11-05T07:13:11Z")\
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**Author:** ![suratpyari](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/suratpyari/32/57149_2.png) [@suratpyari](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/suratpyari)\
**Post date:** [November 5, 2019, 7:13am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/repository-s3-not-uploading-snapshot-to-s3/206532/1 "2019-11-05T07:13:11Z")

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Hi,

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

```auto
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 ..

```auto
{
  "acknowledged" : true
}

```

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

Thanks in advance.

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**Author:** ![Armin\_Braun](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/armin_braun/32/20092_2.png) [@Armin\_Braun](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Armin_Braun)\
**Post date:** [November 5, 2019, 7:28am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/repository-s3-not-uploading-snapshot-to-s3/206532/2 "2019-11-05T07:28:50Z")

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Hi @suratpyari,

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

```auto
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](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/modules-snapshots.html#snapshots-take-snapshot) for details.

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**Author:** ![suratpyari](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/suratpyari/32/57149_2.png) [@suratpyari](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/suratpyari)\
**Post date:** [November 5, 2019, 8:22am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/repository-s3-not-uploading-snapshot-to-s3/206532/3 "2019-11-05T08:22:52Z")

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> [@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?

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**Author:** ![Armin\_Braun](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/armin_braun/32/20092_2.png) [@Armin\_Braun](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Armin_Braun)\
**Post date:** [November 5, 2019, 8:25am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/repository-s3-not-uploading-snapshot-to-s3/206532/4 "2019-11-05T08:25:31Z")

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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.

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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:** [December 3, 2019, 8:25am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/repository-s3-not-uploading-snapshot-to-s3/206532/5 "2019-12-03T08:25:38Z")

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