# Unable to store index into S3

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/unable-to-store-index-into-s3/52687>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [June 14, 2016, 5:56am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/unable-to-store-index-into-s3/52687 "2016-06-14T05:56:56Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![Kishore](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/8edcca/32.png) [@Kishore](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Kishore)\
**Post date:** [June 14, 2016, 5:56am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/unable-to-store-index-into-s3/52687/1 "2016-06-14T05:56:56Z")

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While taking back up of .kibana index to S3 bucket getting below error, kindly help.

```
curl -XPUT '1.1.1.1:9200/_snapshot/siemdefaultrepo/kibana_14june2016?wait_for_completion=true&pretty' -d '{"indices":".kibana","partial":"true"}'
{
  "snapshot" : {
    "snapshot" : "kibana_14june2016",
    "version_id" : 2010199,
    "version" : "2.1.1",
    "indices" : [".kibana"],
    "state" : "PARTIAL",
    "start_time" : "2016-06-14T05:56:52.442Z",
    "start_time_in_millis" : 1465883812442,
    "end_time" : "2016-06-14T05:56:52.848Z",
    "end_time_in_millis" : 1465883812848,
    "duration_in_millis" : 406,
    "failures" : [ {
      "index" : ".kibana",
      "shard_id" : 0,
      "reason" : "IndexShardSnapshotFailedException[The operation is not valid for the object's storage class (Service: Amazon S3; Status Code: 403; Error Code: InvalidObjectState; Request ID: 92F1523F13E582F9)]; nested: AmazonS3Exception[The operation is not valid for the object's storage class (Service: Amazon S3; Status Code: 403; Error Code: InvalidObjectState; Request ID: 92F1523F13E582F9)]; ",
      "node_id" : "DnFayvNKTHmWC34xy_mLxg",
      "status" : "INTERNAL_SERVER_ERROR"
    } ],
    "shards" : {
      "total" : 1,
      "failed" : 1,
      "successful" : 0
    }
  }
}
```

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**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:** [June 14, 2016, 7:05am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/unable-to-store-index-into-s3/52687/2 "2016-06-14T07:05:15Z")

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Please format your code using `</>` button. Updating your post.

`INTERNAL_SERVER_ERROR` is coming from S3 API. May be you have more details in elasticsearch logs?  
Check also that those credentials can read and write data to the S3 repo.

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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:** [July 5, 2017, 10:44pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/unable-to-store-index-into-s3/52687/3 "2017-07-05T22:44:05Z")

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