# S3 snapshot repositories not working after upgrade from 1.7 to 2.3

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/s3-snapshot-repositories-not-working-after-upgrade-from-1-7-to-2-3/56214>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [July 23, 2016, 4:57pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/s3-snapshot-repositories-not-working-after-upgrade-from-1-7-to-2-3/56214 "2016-07-23T16:57:27Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![martiansnoop](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/martiansnoop/32/10809_2.png) [@martiansnoop](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/martiansnoop)\
**Post date:** [July 23, 2016, 4:57pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/s3-snapshot-repositories-not-working-after-upgrade-from-1-7-to-2-3/56214/1 "2016-07-23T16:57:27Z")

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We have several snapshot repositories, created on a 1.7 cluster, that have their type property set to "S3". We also have several with type "s3". It seems that for a time elasticsearch accepted both "S3" and "s3" as a type, but now only accepts "s3".

When we upgraded to 2.3, on startup we get errors like the following for each of the "S3" repos:

```auto
[2016-07-23 05:19:42,914][WARN][repositories] [snip] failed to create repository [S3][snip]
java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Unknown [repository] type [S3]
        at org.elasticsearch.common.util.ExtensionPoint$SelectedType.bindType(ExtensionPoint.java:146)
        at org.elasticsearch.repositories.RepositoryTypesRegistry.bindType(RepositoryTypesRegistry.java:49)
        at org.elasticsearch.repositories.RepositoryModule.configure(RepositoryModule.java:58)
        at org.elasticsearch.common.inject.AbstractModule.configure(AbstractModule.java:60)
        at org.elasticsearch.common.inject.spi.Elements$RecordingBinder.install(Elements.java:233)
        at org.elasticsearch.common.inject.spi.Elements.getElements(Elements.java:105)
        at org.elasticsearch.common.inject.InjectorShell$Builder.build(InjectorShell.java:143)
        at org.elasticsearch.common.inject.InjectorBuilder.build(InjectorBuilder.java:99)
        at org.elasticsearch.common.inject.InjectorImpl.createChildInjector(InjectorImpl.java:157)
        at org.elasticsearch.common.inject.ModulesBuilder.createChildInjector(ModulesBuilder.java:55)
        at org.elasticsearch.repositories.RepositoriesService.createRepositoryHolder(RepositoriesService.java:404)
        at org.elasticsearch.repositories.RepositoriesService.clusterChanged(RepositoriesService.java:299)
        at org.elasticsearch.cluster.service.InternalClusterService.runTasksForExecutor(InternalClusterService.java:610)
        at org.elasticsearch.cluster.service.InternalClusterService$UpdateTask.run(InternalClusterService.java:772)
        at org.elasticsearch.common.util.concurrent.PrioritizedEsThreadPoolExecutor$TieBreakingPrioritizedRunnable.runAndClean(PrioritizedEsThreadPoolExecutor.java:231)
        at org.elasticsearch.common.util.concurrent.PrioritizedEsThreadPoolExecutor$TieBreakingPrioritizedRunnable.run(PrioritizedEsThreadPoolExecutor.java:194)
        at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1142)
        at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:617)
        at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:745)

```

Is it possible to change the type property on a repo?

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**Author:** ![dadoonet](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/dadoonet/32/137187_2.png) [@dadoonet](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dadoonet)\
**Post date:** [July 25, 2016, 9:10am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/s3-snapshot-repositories-not-working-after-upgrade-from-1-7-to-2-3/56214/2 "2016-07-25T09:10:50Z")

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Thank you for reporting.

I just opened this [https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/issues/19570](https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/issues/19570)

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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:** [July 5, 2017, 10:33pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/s3-snapshot-repositories-not-working-after-upgrade-from-1-7-to-2-3/56214/3 "2017-07-05T22:33:13Z")

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