# How to make a policy for creating raft storage snapshots?

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**Category:** Vault\
**Tags:** raft\
**Created:** [September 16, 2020, 11:29am UTC](https://discuss.hashicorp.com/t/how-to-make-a-policy-for-creating-raft-storage-snapshots/14270 "2020-09-16T11:29:50Z")\
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**Author:** ![jeroenjacobs79](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/hashicorp/user_avatar/discuss.hashicorp.com/jeroenjacobs79/32/1187_2.png) [@jeroenjacobs79](https://discuss.hashicorp.com/u/jeroenjacobs79)\
**Post date:** [September 16, 2020, 2:52pm UTC](https://discuss.hashicorp.com/t/how-to-make-a-policy-for-creating-raft-storage-snapshots/14270/2 "2020-09-16T14:52:24Z")

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A few questions:

- Can you provide the exact error Vault returns?
- How do you create the snapshot? vault cli/curl/some other way?

Also, just to be sure: can you do a `vault token lookup` and verify the policy correctly assigned to you?

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