# Snapshot to s3 with elasticsearch-cloud-aws **URL:** \ **Category:** Elasticsearch\ **Created:** [March 28, 2014, 3:15am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/snapshot-to-s3-with-elasticsearch-cloud-aws/16665 "2014-03-28T03:15:54Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Andrew\_Rothstein](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f1d935/32.png) [@Andrew\_Rothstein](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Andrew_Rothstein)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2014, 3:15am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/snapshot-to-s3-with-elasticsearch-cloud-aws/16665/1 "2014-03-28T03:15:54Z")
Running elasticsearch on my laptop. Trying to create a snapshot using the elasticsearch-cloud-aws plugin to my "elasticsearch-cre-snapshot" bucket on s3 andrews-mbp:~ drew$ s3cmd ls | fgrep elasticsearch-cre-snapshot 2014-03-27 04:35 s3://elasticsearch-cre-snapshot andrews-mbp:~ drew$ curl -XPOST localhost:9200/\_snapshot/my\_s3\_repository -d ' { "type": "s3", ``` "settings": { "bucket": "elasticsearch-cre-snapshot", "access_key" : "XXXXXX", "secret_key" : "YYYYYYYY" } ``` }' {"acknowledged":true} Loving life. Sh!t is working. Hoorah! Now for the money shot. Run the snapshot... andrews-mbp:~ drew$ curl -XGET localhost:9200/\_snapshot/my\_s3\_repository/snapshot\_20140327?wait\_for\_completion=true {"error":"SnapshotException[[my\_s3\_repository:snapshot\_20140327] failed to get snapshots]; nested: IOException[Failed to get [snapshot-snapshot\_20140327]]; nested: AmazonS3Exception[Status Code: 404, AWS Service: Amazon S3, AWS Request ID: EC672767156D1CA8, AWS Error Code: NoSuchKey, AWS Error Message: The specified key does not exist.]; ","status":500} What key? 404 what? what? Any suggestions as to what my user error might be? Here's the versions: andrews-mbp:~ drew$ curl -s -XGET localhost:9200 | fgrep number ``` "number" : "1.0.1", ``` Built the cloud-aws pluging from the es-1.0 branch on github. andrews-mbp:~ drew$ ls -l /usr/local/var/lib/elasticsearch/plugins/cloud-aws/ total 28344 -rw-r--r-- 1 drew admin 11934540 Mar 27 00:04 aws-java-sdk-1.7.3.jar -rw-r--r-- 1 drew admin 58160 Mar 2 00:13 commons-codec-1.4.jar -rw-r--r-- 1 drew admin 60686 Nov 10 23:00 commons-logging-1.1.1.jar -rw-r--r-- 1 drew admin 46083 Mar 27 00:19 elasticsearch-cloud-aws-2.0.1-SNAPSHOT.jar -rw-r--r-- 1 drew admin 424648 Mar 27 00:04 httpclient-4.2.jar -rw-r--r-- 1 drew admin 223282 Mar 27 00:04 httpcore-4.2.jar -rw-r--r-- 1 drew admin 34477 Mar 27 00:04 jackson-annotations-2.1.1.jar -rw-r--r-- 1 drew admin 206379 Mar 27 00:04 jackson-core-2.1.1.jar -rw-r--r-- 1 drew admin 922643 Mar 27 00:04 jackson-databind-2.1.1.jar -rw-r--r-- 1 drew admin 581571 Mar 27 00:04 joda-time-2.3.jar Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated! -Andrew -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "elasticsearch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [elasticsearch+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com](mailto:elasticsearch+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com). To view this discussion on the web visit [https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/ca937821-2936-47a5-b92e-81788ca01668%40googlegroups.com](https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/ca937821-2936-47a5-b92e-81788ca01668%40googlegroups.com). For more options, visit [https://groups.google.com/d/optout](https://groups.google.com/d/optout). ---
**Author:** ![Andrew\_Rothstein](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f1d935/32.png) [@Andrew\_Rothstein](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Andrew_Rothstein)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2014, 3:23am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/snapshot-to-s3-with-elasticsearch-cloud-aws/16665/2 "2014-03-28T03:23:47Z")
Here's the contents as a gist in the vein of playing by the rules. Any suggestions for directions shy of adding print statements to the plugin would be greatly appreciated. > Best regards, Andrew On Thursday, March 27, 2014 11:15:54 PM UTC-4, Andrew Rothstein wrote: > Running elasticsearch on my laptop. Trying to create a snapshot using the > elasticsearch-cloud-aws plugin to my "elasticsearch-cre-snapshot" bucket on > s3 > > andrews-mbp:~ drew$ s3cmd ls | fgrep elasticsearch-cre-snapshot > > 2014-03-27 04:35 s3://elasticsearch-cre-snapshot > > andrews-mbp:~ drew$ curl -XPOST localhost:9200/\_snapshot/my\_s3\_repository > -d ' > > { > > "type": "s3", > > ``` > "settings": { > > "bucket": "elasticsearch-cre-snapshot", > > "access_key" : "XXXXXX", > > "secret_key" : "YYYYYYYY" > > } > > ``` > > }' > > {"acknowledged":true} > > Loving life. Sh!t is working. Hoorah! Now for the money shot. Run the > snapshot... > > andrews-mbp:~ drew$ curl -XGET > localhost:9200/\_snapshot/my\_s3\_repository/snapshot\_20140327?wait\_for\_completion=true > > {"error":"SnapshotException[[my\_s3\_repository:snapshot\_20140327] failed to > get snapshots]; nested: IOException[Failed to get > [snapshot-snapshot\_20140327]]; nested: AmazonS3Exception[Status Code: 404, > AWS Service: Amazon S3, AWS Request ID: EC672767156D1CA8, AWS Error Code: > NoSuchKey, AWS Error Message: The specified key does not exist.]; > ","status":500} > > What key? 404 what? what? Any suggestions as to what my user error might > be? > > Here's the versions: > > andrews-mbp:~ drew$ curl -s -XGET localhost:9200 | fgrep number > > ``` > "number" : "1.0.1", > > ``` > > Built the cloud-aws pluging from the es-1.0 branch on github. > > andrews-mbp:~ drew$ ls -l > /usr/local/var/lib/elasticsearch/plugins/cloud-aws/ > > total 28344 > > -rw-r--r-- 1 drew admin 11934540 Mar 27 00:04 aws-java-sdk-1.7.3.jar > > -rw-r--r-- 1 drew admin 58160 Mar 2 00:13 commons-codec-1.4.jar > > -rw-r--r-- 1 drew admin 60686 Nov 10 23:00 commons-logging-1.1.1.jar > > -rw-r--r-- 1 drew admin 46083 Mar 27 00:19 > elasticsearch-cloud-aws-2.0.1-SNAPSHOT.jar > > -rw-r--r-- 1 drew admin 424648 Mar 27 00:04 httpclient-4.2.jar > > -rw-r--r-- 1 drew admin 223282 Mar 27 00:04 httpcore-4.2.jar > > -rw-r--r-- 1 drew admin 34477 Mar 27 00:04 > jackson-annotations-2.1.1.jar > > -rw-r--r-- 1 drew admin 206379 Mar 27 00:04 jackson-core-2.1.1.jar > > -rw-r--r-- 1 drew admin 922643 Mar 27 00:04 jackson-databind-2.1.1.jar > > -rw-r--r-- 1 drew admin 581571 Mar 27 00:04 joda-time-2.3.jar > Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated! > -Andrew -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "elasticsearch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [elasticsearch+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com](mailto:elasticsearch+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com). To view this discussion on the web visit [https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/346c532a-6531-4a1d-9329-91f85765206c%40googlegroups.com](https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/346c532a-6531-4a1d-9329-91f85765206c%40googlegroups.com). For more options, visit [https://groups.google.com/d/optout](https://groups.google.com/d/optout). ---
**Author:** ![Andrew\_Rothstein](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f1d935/32.png) [@Andrew\_Rothstein](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Andrew_Rothstein)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2014, 3:27am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/snapshot-to-s3-with-elasticsearch-cloud-aws/16665/3 "2014-03-28T03:27:35Z")
Mystery solved! Use -XPUT to write a snapshot to S3. Not -XGET! PEBKAC! On Thursday, March 27, 2014 11:15:54 PM UTC-4, Andrew Rothstein wrote: > Running elasticsearch on my laptop. Trying to create a snapshot using the > elasticsearch-cloud-aws plugin to my "elasticsearch-cre-snapshot" bucket on > s3 > > andrews-mbp:~ drew$ s3cmd ls | fgrep elasticsearch-cre-snapshot > > 2014-03-27 04:35 s3://elasticsearch-cre-snapshot > > andrews-mbp:~ drew$ curl -XPOST localhost:9200/\_snapshot/my\_s3\_repository > -d ' > > { > > "type": "s3", > > ``` > "settings": { > > "bucket": "elasticsearch-cre-snapshot", > > "access_key" : "XXXXXX", > > "secret_key" : "YYYYYYYY" > > } > > ``` > > }' > > {"acknowledged":true} > > Loving life. Sh!t is working. Hoorah! Now for the money shot. Run the > snapshot... > > andrews-mbp:~ drew$ curl -XGET > localhost:9200/\_snapshot/my\_s3\_repository/snapshot\_20140327?wait\_for\_completion=true > > {"error":"SnapshotException[[my\_s3\_repository:snapshot\_20140327] failed to > get snapshots]; nested: IOException[Failed to get > [snapshot-snapshot\_20140327]]; nested: AmazonS3Exception[Status Code: 404, > AWS Service: Amazon S3, AWS Request ID: EC672767156D1CA8, AWS Error Code: > NoSuchKey, AWS Error Message: The specified key does not exist.]; > ","status":500} > > What key? 404 what? what? Any suggestions as to what my user error might > be? > > Here's the versions: > > andrews-mbp:~ drew$ curl -s -XGET localhost:9200 | fgrep number > > ``` > "number" : "1.0.1", > > ``` > > Built the cloud-aws pluging from the es-1.0 branch on github. > > andrews-mbp:~ drew$ ls -l > /usr/local/var/lib/elasticsearch/plugins/cloud-aws/ > > total 28344 > > -rw-r--r-- 1 drew admin 11934540 Mar 27 00:04 aws-java-sdk-1.7.3.jar > > -rw-r--r-- 1 drew admin 58160 Mar 2 00:13 commons-codec-1.4.jar > > -rw-r--r-- 1 drew admin 60686 Nov 10 23:00 commons-logging-1.1.1.jar > > -rw-r--r-- 1 drew admin 46083 Mar 27 00:19 > elasticsearch-cloud-aws-2.0.1-SNAPSHOT.jar > > -rw-r--r-- 1 drew admin 424648 Mar 27 00:04 httpclient-4.2.jar > > -rw-r--r-- 1 drew admin 223282 Mar 27 00:04 httpcore-4.2.jar > > -rw-r--r-- 1 drew admin 34477 Mar 27 00:04 > jackson-annotations-2.1.1.jar > > -rw-r--r-- 1 drew admin 206379 Mar 27 00:04 jackson-core-2.1.1.jar > > -rw-r--r-- 1 drew admin 922643 Mar 27 00:04 jackson-databind-2.1.1.jar > > -rw-r--r-- 1 drew admin 581571 Mar 27 00:04 joda-time-2.3.jar > Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated! > -Andrew -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "elasticsearch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [elasticsearch+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com](mailto:elasticsearch+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com). To view this discussion on the web visit [https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/c77b08d5-c4c9-47bb-8e7e-fed7d962233d%40googlegroups.com](https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/c77b08d5-c4c9-47bb-8e7e-fed7d962233d%40googlegroups.com). For more options, visit [https://groups.google.com/d/optout](https://groups.google.com/d/optout). ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2017, 1:39am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/snapshot-to-s3-with-elasticsearch-cloud-aws/16665/4 "2017-07-06T01:39:57Z")