# Unable to create snapshots **URL:** \ **Category:** Elasticsearch\ **Created:** [April 17, 2017, 4:38pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/unable-to-create-snapshots/82601 "2017-04-17T16:38:55Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![jzhang](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/df788c/32.png) [@jzhang](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/jzhang)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2017, 4:38pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/unable-to-create-snapshots/82601/1 "2017-04-17T16:38:55Z")
My cluster is on elasticsearch 2.3, with 3 data nodes and 2 none data nodes, on the data nodes, I setup the NFS mount and added the data.repo to the elasticsearch.yml file. when I issue PUT /\_snapshot/my\_backup { "type": "fs", "settings": { "location": "/mount/esbackup/" } } I got following in return. I am wonder whether I should mount the NFS folder on the nodes that have no data, or is there anything else I need to check. Thanks for your help. { "error": { "root\_cause": [ { "type": "repository\_exception", "reason": "[my\_backup] failed to create repository" } ], "type": "repository\_exception", "reason": "[my\_backup] failed to create repository", "caused\_by": { "type": "creation\_exception", "reason": "Guice creation errors:\n\n1) Error injecting constructor, RepositoryException[[my\_backup] location [/mount/esbackup/] doesn't match any of the locations specified by path.repo]\n at org.elasticsearch.repositories.fs.FsRepository.(Unknown Source)\n while locating org.elasticsearch.repositories.fs.FsRepository\n while locating org.elasticsearch.repositories.Repository\n\n1 error", "caused\_by": { "type": "repository\_exception", "reason": "[my\_backup] location [/mount/esbackup/] doesn't match any of the locations specified by path.repo" } } }, "status": 500 } ---
**Author:** ![dadoonet](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/dadoonet/32/137187_2.png) [@dadoonet](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dadoonet)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2017, 5:10pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/unable-to-create-snapshots/82601/2 "2017-04-17T17:10:03Z")
Did you mean path.repo? ---
**Author:** ![jzhang](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/df788c/32.png) [@jzhang](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/jzhang)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2017, 6:27pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/unable-to-create-snapshots/82601/3 "2017-04-17T18:27:48Z")
yes. Sorry ---
**Author:** ![dadoonet](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/dadoonet/32/137187_2.png) [@dadoonet](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dadoonet)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2017, 6:38pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/unable-to-create-snapshots/82601/4 "2017-04-17T18:38:51Z")
You need to add this on all nodes and restart your nodes. ---
**Author:** ![jzhang](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/df788c/32.png) [@jzhang](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/jzhang)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2017, 10:00am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/unable-to-create-snapshots/82601/5 "2017-04-20T10:00:25Z")
I added the mounting point on every node, checked the file path is accessible, added path:repo to elasticsearch.yml, also restart elasticsearch on every node with no luck. looking at the /var/log/elasticsearch/elasticsearch.log, it says the same error. [2017-04-20 05:52:27,041][WARN][repositories] [node-aphdp27] failed to create repository [fs][my\_backup] org.elasticsearch.common.inject.CreationException: Guice creation errors: 1. Error injecting constructor, RepositoryException[[my\_backup] location [/mount/esbackup/] doesn't match any of the locations specified by path.repo] at org.elasticsearch.repositories.fs.FsRepository.(Unknown Source) while locating org.elasticsearch.repositories.fs.FsRepository while locating org.elasticsearch.repositories.Repository 1 error at org.elasticsearch.common.inject.internal.Errors.throwCreationExceptionIfErrorsExist(Errors.java:360) at org.elasticsearch.common.inject.InjectorBuilder.injectDynamically(InjectorBuilder.java:178) at org.elasticsearch.common.inject.InjectorBuilder.build(InjectorBuilder.java:110) at org.elasticsearch.common.inject.InjectorImpl.createChildInjector(InjectorImpl.java:157) ... ---
**Author:** ![jzhang](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/df788c/32.png) [@jzhang](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/jzhang)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2017, 10:13am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/unable-to-create-snapshots/82601/6 "2017-04-20T10:13:43Z")
double check again there was a mistype in my mounting point, so repo is configured ok after the typo correction. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2017, 10:22am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/unable-to-create-snapshots/82601/7 "2017-05-18T10:22:24Z")
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