Snapshots transport error from python

[Medhamsh (Medhamsh V)]

The idea here is to take snapshots of all the indices at any given point of time. We have a python program which triggers the snapshot creation on the elasticsearch nodes. To keep all this simple, I am just trying in the repl shell to create a repository and it fails with the error saying a reference to empty path repo in the config/elasticsearch.yml. In reality this is not true and we have a configuration of path.repo in the configuration yml.

path.repo: ["/usr/share/elasticsearch/data/backups"]
I also tried setting the path repo as single entry rather than the list of a single element.

path.repo: "/usr/share/elasticsearch/data/backups"
This path repo is also effective. I have verified by doing a GET/_nodes/settings.

"name": "es-cluster-name"
   },
   "node": {
       "name": "es-cluster-name_elasticsearch_2",
       "path": {
           "repo": [
               "/usr/share/elasticsearch/data/backups"
           ]
       }
   },
   "path": {
       "logs": "/usr/share/elasticsearch/logs",
       "home": "/usr/share/elasticsearch"

This is present for every node. The filesystem also has the directory present at /usr/share/elasticsearch/data/backups.

When I try to create the the repository this is what i get.

>>> data = {
... "type": "fs",
... "settings": {
...   "compress": "true",
...   "location": "/usr/share/elasticsearch/data/backups",
... }
... }
>>> es.snapshot.create_repository('test', body=data)
PUT http://lb-elasticsearch:9200/_snapshot/test [status:500     request:1.255s]
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
elasticsearch.exceptions.TransportError: TransportError(500,     'repository_exception', "[test] location     [/usr/share/elasticsearch/data/backups] doesn't match any of the locations     specified by path.repo because this setting is empty")

Here I trimmed the unnecessary trace. Following are the logs from console.

0:20:411) Error injecting constructor, RepositoryException[[test]     location  [/usr/share/elasticsearch/data/backups] doesn't match any of the     locations specified by path.repo because this setting is empty]
10/01/2017 00:20:41  at  org.elasticsearch.repositories.fs.FsRepository.<init>(Unknown Source)
10/01/2017 00:20:41  while locating org.elasticsearch.repositories.fs.FsRepository
10/01/2017 00:20:41  while locating org.elasticsearch.repositories.Repository
10/01/2017 00:20:41
10/01/2017 00:20:411 error]; nested: RepositoryException[[test] location [/usr/share/elasticsearch/data/backups] doesn't match any of the  locations specified by path.repo because this setting is empty];
10/01/2017 00:20:41     at org.elasticsearch.common.inject.internal.Errors.throwCreationExceptionIfErrorsExist(Errors.java:360)
10/01/2017 00:20:41     at org.elasticsearch.common.inject.InjectorBuilder.injectDynamically(InjectorBuilder.java:178)
10/01/2017 00:20:41     at org.elasticsearch.common.inject.InjectorBuilder.build(InjectorBuilder.java:110)
10/01/2017 00:20:41     at org.elasticsearch.common.inject.InjectorImpl.createChildInjector(InjectorImpl.java:154)
10/01/2017 00:20:41     at org.elasticsearch.common.inject.ModulesBuilder.createChildInjector(ModulesBuilder.java:55)
10/01/2017 00:20:41     at org.elasticsearch.repositories.RepositoriesService.createRepositoryHolder(RepositoriesService.java:404)
10/01/2017 00:20:41     ... 11 more

With all this. I am unable to find the route of troubleshooting this scenario.

Thanks in advance. All this setup is in docker inside rancher.