# Snapshot and restore

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/snapshot-and-restore/282516>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Tags:** snapshot-and-restore\
**Created:** [August 25, 2021, 7:12pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/snapshot-and-restore/282516 "2021-08-25T19:12:53Z")\
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**Author:** ![Akhil2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8797f3/32.png) [@Akhil2](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Akhil2)\
**Post date:** [August 25, 2021, 7:12pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/snapshot-and-restore/282516/1 "2021-08-25T19:12:53Z")

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Hello all,

As per the documentation about registering a snapshot repository,

> **[Register a snapshot repository | Elasticsearch Guide \[7.13\] | Elastic](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/7.13/snapshots-register-repository.html#CO510-2)**

first, I am supposed to add following to elasticsearch.yml file. i understand that I can store backup on my network drive which would be the location here.

```auto
Path:
  repo:
    - "E:\\Mount\\Backups"                      
    - "\\\\MY_SERVER\\Mount\\Long_term_backups" 

```

But I have a three node cluster. I am not sure if I am supposed to add this to all three elasticsearch.yml (for each node) files. can anyone please clear this confusion?

Thank you in advance!

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**Author:** ![leandrojmp](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/leandrojmp/32/107231_2.png) [@leandrojmp](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/leandrojmp)\
**Post date:** [August 25, 2021, 7:44pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/snapshot-and-restore/282516/2 "2021-08-25T19:44:31Z")

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What is the confusion? According to the same [documentation](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/7.13/snapshots-register-repository.html#snapshots-filesystem-repository) page:

> To register a shared file system repository, first mount the file system to the same location on all master and data nodes. Then add the file system’s path or parent directory to the `path.repo` setting in `elasticsearch.yml` for each master and data node. For running clusters, this requires a [rolling restart](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/7.13/restart-cluster.html#restart-cluster-rolling) of each node.

You need to add the shared filesystem in each node of your cluster.

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**Author:** ![Akhil2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8797f3/32.png) [@Akhil2](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Akhil2)\
**Post date:** [August 25, 2021, 9:15pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/snapshot-and-restore/282516/3 "2021-08-25T21:15:10Z")

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Hi @leandrojmp, I noticed that later. but could not delete the post.

Thanks for the help!

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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:** [September 22, 2021, 9:15pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/snapshot-and-restore/282516/4 "2021-09-22T21:15:53Z")

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