# Unable to take snapshot
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/unable-to-take-snapshot/218088
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [February 6, 2020, 5:31am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/unable-to-take-snapshot/218088 "2020-02-06T05:31:48Z")
**Posts on this page:** 6
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### Author:  [@Gayathri.Srivathsan](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Gayathri.Srivathsan)
#### Post date: [February 6, 2020, 5:31am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/unable-to-take-snapshot/218088/1 "2020-02-06T05:31:48Z")
Hi All,
I created a read only repository pointing my bitbucket repo.I tried to create snapshot but it gives the following error.
{
"error": {
"root\_cause": [
{
"type": "not\_x\_content\_exception",
"reason": "Compressor detection can only be called on some xcontent bytes or compressed xcontent bytes"
}
],
"type": "not\_x\_content\_exception",
"reason": "Compressor detection can only be called on some xcontent bytes or compressed xcontent bytes"
},
"status": 500
}
I dont know which mapping has gone wrong here.
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### Author:  [@Armin\_Braun](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Armin_Braun)
#### Post date: [February 6, 2020, 5:52am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/unable-to-take-snapshot/218088/2 "2020-02-06T05:52:26Z")
Hi @Gayathri.Srivathsan
what's your exact repository settings, i.e. how did you create the repository?
> [@Gayathri.Srivathsan](#):
>
> I created a read only repository pointing my bitbucket repo
What plugin did you use here? Bitbucket is a version control system, to my knowledge there is no repository plugin for it (and frankly I don't see how one would make sense).
Also, a read-only repository will not allow you to take snapshots it only allows reading/restoring from it as the name suggests 🙂
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### Author:  [@Gayathri.Srivathsan](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Gayathri.Srivathsan)
#### Post date: [February 6, 2020, 6:12am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/unable-to-take-snapshot/218088/3 "2020-02-06T06:12:51Z")
HI,
I wanted to push my backup data directly to bitbucket. Is it possible in shared repository. Can I give the URL in path.repo
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### Author:  [@Armin\_Braun](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Armin_Braun)
#### Post date: [February 6, 2020, 6:16am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/unable-to-take-snapshot/218088/4 "2020-02-06T06:16:33Z")
@Gayathri.Srivathsan not that won't be possible. You need to provide a shared file system path that is seen by all your nodes for `path.repo` when using the `fs` repository, you can't run against arbitrary GIT/HTTP endpoints.
A version control system is not suitable for storing the potentially large files generated by the Elasticsearch snapshot functionality to begin with. You can either snapshot to a shared file system, HDFS or one of our supported cloud storage backends as an alternative.
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### Author:  [@Gayathri.Srivathsan](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Gayathri.Srivathsan)
#### Post date: [February 6, 2020, 6:37am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/unable-to-take-snapshot/218088/5 "2020-02-06T06:37:58Z")
@Armin_Braun
Okay . Thanks for the info.
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [March 5, 2020, 6:38am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/unable-to-take-snapshot/218088/6 "2020-03-05T06:38:03Z")
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