adding snapshot to elasticsearch Windows - elasticsearch

Question

I have two snapshots that I want to insert into elasticsearch in path:
C:\Users\name\Downloads\book_backup\agg_example
C:\Users\name\Downloads\book_backup\search_example
which I properly listed in elasticsearch.yml
path.repo: ["C:\\Users\\olulo\\Downloads\\book_backup\\agg_example", "C:\\Users\\olulo\\Downloads\\book_backup\\search_example"]
my elasticsearch starts fine and creating a new index works too.
Now when I try to insert snapshot into my elasticsearch so I can work on it:
curl -XPUT "http://localhost:9200/movies/" -d '{"type":"fs", "settings":{"location":"C:\\Users\\name\\Downloads\\book_backup\\search_example", "compress":true}}'
It gives me:
curl: (1) Protocol "'http" not supported or disabled in libcurl
curl: (3) [globbing] unmatched brace in column 10
curl: (3) [globbing] unmatched close brace/bracket in column 14
In https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/5.2/modules-snapshots.html it seems like they've added a name at the end of path in location so I did
curl -XPUT "http://localhost:9200/movies/" -d '{"type":"fs", "settings":{"location":"C:\\Users\\name\\Downloads\\book_backup\\search_example\\test", "compress":true}}'
but still gives me same error.
following https://superuser.com/questions/1322567/http-not-supported-or-disabled-in-libcurl I've change everything to double quotes:
curl -XPUT "http://localhost:9200/_snapshot/javacafe" -d "{"type":"fs", "settings":{"location":"C:\\Users\\olulo\\Downloads\\book_backup\\search_example", "compress":true}}"
giving me :
{"error":"Content-Type header [application/x-www-form-urlencoded] is not supported","status":406}
Tried adding curl option as suggested Content-Type header [application/x-www-form-urlencoded] is not supported on Elasticsearch by
curl -XPUT "localhost:9200/_snapshot/javacafe" -H 'Content-Type: application/json' -d "{
"type":"fs",
"settings"{"location":"C:\\Users\\olulo\\Downloads\\book_backup\\search_example\\test", "compress":true}
}"
which outputs similar error with added statement at the end:
{"error":"Content-Type header [application/x-www-form-urlencoded] is not supported","status":406}curl: (6) Could not resolve host: application
SOLVED : for windows you need to use backslash infront of double quotation mark inside {}:
curl -XPUT "localhost:9200/_snapshot/javacafe" -H "Content-Type: application/json" -d "{
\"type\":\"fs\",
\"settings\"{\"location\":"C:\\Users\\olulo\\Downloads\\book_backup\\search_example\\test", \"compress\":true}
}"
From my understanding windows use \ to consider " as it is. If so why not add backslash to all curl commands as well?

Answer 1

Try this:
curl -XPUT "localhost:9200/_snapshot/javacafe" -H 'Content-Type: application/json' -d '{
"type":"fs",
"settings" : {
"location":"C:\\Users\\olulo\\Downloads\\book_backup\\search_example\\test",
"compress":true
}
}'