# Snapshot and restore to different disks

**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/snapshot-and-restore-to-different-disks/220293
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [February 21, 2020, 6:03am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/snapshot-and-restore-to-different-disks/220293 "2020-02-21T06:03:11Z")
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### Author: ![samiujan](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/samiujan/32/23605_2.png) [@samiujan](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/samiujan)
#### Post date: [February 21, 2020, 6:03am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/snapshot-and-restore-to-different-disks/220293/1 "2020-02-21T06:03:12Z")

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Hi

I want to set up Elasticsearch 7.5 offline backups and I found the "Snapshot and Restore" functionality in Kibana ([https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/7.5/snapshot-restore.html](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/7.5/snapshot-restore.html))

This tells me that I have the option to backup to a shared disk location - I have 1 external disk mapped to every node in my cluster seperately and my hypervisor doesn't allow a shared disk - can I still backup to different disks - or will that not work i.e. will it create broken or duplicated data?

Thanks

- Sami

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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: [February 21, 2020, 7:00am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/snapshot-and-restore-to-different-disks/220293/2 "2020-02-21T07:00:28Z")

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Hi @samiujan

I'm afraid you'll need a shared disk location as a snapshot repository. Taking a snapshot is a distributed process and only if both master- and data-nodes have access to the same shared path will it work out correctly.

Maybe you can add e.g. a Minio server that mounts your external drive to your deployment and use the S3 repository plugin to work around this issue?

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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: [March 20, 2020, 7:13am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/snapshot-and-restore-to-different-disks/220293/3 "2020-03-20T07:13:56Z")

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