[[get-snapshot-repo-api]]
=== Get snapshot repository API
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<titleabbrev>Get snapshot repository</titleabbrev>
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Gets information about one or more registered
<<snapshots-register-repository,snapshot repositories>>.

////
[source,console]
----
PUT /_snapshot/my_repository
{
  "type": "fs",
  "settings": {
    "location": "my_backup_location"
  }
}
----
// TESTSETUP
////

[source,console]
----
GET /_snapshot/my_repository
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[[get-snapshot-repo-api-request]]
==== {api-request-title}

`GET /_snapshot/<repository>`

`GET /_snapshot`

[[get-snapshot-repo-api-path-params]]
==== {api-path-parms-title}

`<repository>`::
(Required, string)
Comma-separated list of snapshot repository names used to limit the request.
Wildcard (`*`) expressions are supported.
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To get information about all snapshot repositories registered in the
cluster, omit this parameter or use `*` or `_all`.

[[get-snapshot-repo-api-query-params]]
==== {api-query-parms-title}

`local`::
(Optional, boolean) If `true`, the request gets information from the local node
only. If `false`, the request gets information from the master node. Defaults to
`false`.

`master_timeout`::
(Optional, <<time-units, time units>>) Specifies the period of time to wait for
a connection to the master node. If no response is received before the timeout
expires, the request fails and returns an error. Defaults to `30s`.

[role="child_attributes"]
[[get-snapshot-repo-api-response-body]]
==== {api-response-body-title}

`<repository>`::
(object)
Contains information about the snapshot repository. Key is the name of the
snapshot repository.
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.Properties of `<repository>`
[%collapsible%open]
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`type`::
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--
(string)
Repository type.

.Values for `type`
[%collapsible%open]
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`fs`::
Shared file system repository. See <<snapshots-filesystem-repository>>.

[xpack]#`source`#::
Source-only repository. See <<snapshots-source-only-repository>>.

`url`::
URL repository. See <<snapshots-read-only-repository>>.
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More repository types are available through these official plugins:

* {plugins}/repository-s3.html[repository-s3] for S3 repository support
* {plugins}/repository-hdfs.html[repository-hdfs] for HDFS repository support in
  Hadoop environments
* {plugins}/repository-azure.html[repository-azure] for Azure storage
  repositories
* {plugins}/repository-gcs.html[repository-gcs] for Google Cloud Storage
  repositories
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`settings`::
(object)
Contains settings for the repository. Valid properties for the `settings` object
depend on the repository type, set using the
<<put-snapshot-repo-api-request-type,`type`>> parameter.
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For properties, see the <<put-snapshot-repo-api,put snapshot repository API>>'s
<<put-snapshot-repo-api-settings-param,`settings` parameter>>.
====

[[get-snapshot-repo-api-example]]
==== {api-examples-title}

[source,console]
----
GET /_snapshot/my_repository
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The API returns the following response:

[source,console-result]
----
{
  "my_repository" : {
    "type" : "fs",
    "settings" : {
      "location" : "my_backup_location"
    }
  }
}
----