# S3 Snapshot backing up newly made indexes
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/s3-snapshot-backing-up-newly-made-indexes/188710
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [July 3, 2019, 12:51pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/s3-snapshot-backing-up-newly-made-indexes/188710 "2019-07-03T12:51:50Z")
**Posts on this page:** 7
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### Author:  [@iukea](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/iukea)
#### Post date: [July 3, 2019, 12:51pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/s3-snapshot-backing-up-newly-made-indexes/188710/1 "2019-07-03T12:51:51Z")
Hello,
I am having issues backing up a new index to my S3 bucket
**About my setup**
I am using Elk 6.8.0 with a new index being made each day with the following format
LogStash-(Year, month day)
I am also using the ElasticSearch S3 SnapShot plugin.
I was able to back up some of my indexes to an S3 bucket from running the following command, and it worked!!!!!.
```auto
PUT _snapshot/my_s3_repository/backup
{
"type": "s3",
"settings": {
"bucket": "ts-threat-indexes",
"compress": true,
"region": "us-east-2b"
}
}
```
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My Issue.
A new index was made and I want to back it up
```auto
logstash-2019.06.30
```
I ran the following command
```auto
PUT _snapshot/my_s3_repository/backup/
{
"indices": "logstash-2019.06.30",
"include_global_state": false
}
```
But got an error ☹
```auto
{
"error": {
"root_cause": [
{
"type": "invalid_snapshot_name_exception",
"reason": "[my_s3_repository:backup] Invalid snapshot name [backup], snapshot with the same name already exists"
}
],
"type": "invalid_snapshot_name_exception",
"reason": "[my_s3_repository:backup] Invalid snapshot name [backup], snapshot with the same name already exists"
},
"status": 400
}
```
This all said when I run the code below, it works fine.
```auto
PUT _snapshot/my_s3_repository/backup/logstash-2019.06.30/
{
"indices": "logstash-2019.06.30",
"include_global_state": false
}
```
Do I have to make a new ElasticSearch S3 repo every time I want to take a backup/snapshot of a newly formed index?
@dadoonet Do you have any words of wisdom?
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### Author:  [@iukea](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/iukea)
#### Post date: [July 3, 2019, 4:22pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/s3-snapshot-backing-up-newly-made-indexes/188710/2 "2019-07-03T16:22:50Z")
How do i add a snapshot to an /backup/ repo?
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### Author:  [@dadoonet](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dadoonet)
#### Post date: [July 3, 2019, 4:35pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/s3-snapshot-backing-up-newly-made-indexes/188710/3 "2019-07-03T16:35:45Z")
> [@iukea](#):
>
> @dadoonet Do you have any words of wisdom?
Please don't ping people who are not yet involved in your thread.
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### Author:  [@dadoonet](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dadoonet)
#### Post date: [July 3, 2019, 4:37pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/s3-snapshot-backing-up-newly-made-indexes/188710/4 "2019-07-03T16:37:07Z")
That should work I guess...
```auto
PUT _snapshot/my_s3_repository/backup/snap1
{
"indices": "logstash-2019.06.30",
"include_global_state": false
}
PUT _snapshot/my_s3_repository/backup/snap2
{
"indices": "logstash-2019.07.01",
"include_global_state": false
}
```
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### Author:  [@iukea](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/iukea)
#### Post date: [July 3, 2019, 6:50pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/s3-snapshot-backing-up-newly-made-indexes/188710/5 "2019-07-03T18:50:28Z")
is there any other way to add an index to an exiting snapshot?
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### Author:  [@dadoonet](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dadoonet)
#### Post date: [July 3, 2019, 7:10pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/s3-snapshot-backing-up-newly-made-indexes/188710/6 "2019-07-03T19:10:07Z")
Take a new snapshot with both indices and remove the old snapshot.
If no changes happened in the first Index, it will just copy the data from the new index.
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 31, 2019, 7:17pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/s3-snapshot-backing-up-newly-made-indexes/188710/7 "2019-07-31T19:17:01Z")
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