Create Volume Snapshot

Owned by Chung, Donald (STFC,RAL,SC)
Last updated: Aug 16, 2023 by Chris Green
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You can also snapshot a volume to act as a backup or template for creating new volumes.

Web Interface

  1. Click the drop-down menu on the right-hand side (in Actions column) and select CREATE SNAPSHOT

  2. Give it a name and press CREATE SNAPSHOT

Command-Line

Find the ID of the volume with:

$ openstack volume list +--------------------------------------+----------------+-----------+------+-----------------------------------+ | ID | Name | Status | Size | Attached to | +--------------------------------------+----------------+-----------+------+-----------------------------------+ | 03a5bb45-6c28-406d-8cd7-7fac5b63bdeb | cli-new-volume | available | 8 | | +--------------------------------------+----------------+-----------+------+-----------------------------------+

Run

openstack volume snapshot create --volume <volume-id> <name>



$ openstack volume snapshot create --volume 8e20dbdd-16ee-40e9-84ed-971c12104b98 testing-v-snapshot +-------------+--------------------------------------+ | Field | Value | +-------------+--------------------------------------+ | created_at | 2021-12-02T14:34:48.718892 | | description | None | | id | 76d51455-a5cd-478d-a93f-6e49b4108575 | | name | testing-v-snapshot | | properties | | | size | 3 | | status | creating | | updated_at | None | | volume_id | 8e20dbdd-16ee-40e9-84ed-971c12104b98 | +-------------+--------------------------------------+