# Snapshot Restore
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/snapshot-restore/171783
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [March 11, 2019, 2:10pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/snapshot-restore/171783 "2019-03-11T14:10:02Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author:  [@kb2295](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/kb2295)
#### Post date: [March 11, 2019, 2:10pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/snapshot-restore/171783/1 "2019-03-11T14:10:02Z")
Hi,
I'm trying to snapshot restore using a repository. This is the command i am running:
`PUT -u user:password /_snapshot/my_backup/snapshot_20181011`
and I'm getting this error (in dev tools kibana):
{
"error": "Content-Type header [text/plain] is not supported",
"status": 406
}
I've tried variations such as
`PUT -u user:password /_snapshot/my_backup/snapshot_20190308 -H 'Content-Type: application/json' -d`
but i get exactly the same error.
Can someone help me with this?
Thank you!
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### Author:  [@DavidTurner](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/DavidTurner)
#### Post date: [March 11, 2019, 5:08pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/snapshot-restore/171783/2 "2019-03-11T17:08:17Z")
> [@kb2295](#):
>
> `-u user:password`
I do not know that the Kibana dev tools supports passing the username and password like this. I think you don't need to include this, because you already logged into Kibana.
> [@kb2295](#):
>
> `PUT -u user:password /_snapshot/my_backup/snapshot_20190308 -H 'Content-Type: application/json' -d`
You are confusing the syntax for `curl` with the syntax that is permitted in Kibana. You just write
```plaintext
PUT /_snapshot/my_backup/snapshot_20181011
{
"maybe": {"some": "more"},
"options": "here"
}
```
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [April 8, 2019, 5:19pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/snapshot-restore/171783/3 "2019-04-08T17:19:36Z")
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