INCUS.SNAPSHOT.CREATE(1)

💖 incus-snapshot-create 💖

okay bestie, welcome to the Incus - Command line client(1) manual, specifically the bit about incus-snapshot-create — the glow-up button for your instances. she makes snapshots. she's iconic. let's go ✨

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✨ NAME ✨

incus-snapshot-create — Create instance snapshot 🫶

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

incus snapshot create [:] [] [flags]

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

Bestie. Listen. This command makes instance snapshots. That's the whole vibe. Freeze your instance exactly how it is right now so you can come back to it later like nothing ever happened. main character energy fr.

When --stateful is used, it will attempt to checkpoint the instance's running state, including process memory state, TCP connections, ... 😭💅 like it literally tries to save the whole moment, memory and connections and all.

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🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

• --expiry="" — the expiry for the new snapshot. Either a time span like 1d 3H or a date in 2006/01/02 15:04 MST format ⏰
• --no-expiry[=false] — ignore any configured auto-expiry for the instance. no timer, no stress 🧚
• --reuse[=false] — if the snapshot name already exists, delete and create a new one. out with the old, in with the new 💅
• --stateful[=false] — whether or not to snapshot the instance's running state. the full memory-and-connections special 🔥

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👑 OPTIONS INHERITED FROM PARENT COMMANDS 👑

these are the ones she got from her mama, and they're all still serving:

• --debug[=false] — show all debug messages 🐛
• --explain[=false] — if the command is valid, explain its parsed arguments instead of running it. she'll narrate her own thoughts, no cap
• --force-local[=false] — force using the local unix socket
• -h, --help[=false] — print help
• --project="" — override the source project
• -q, --quiet[=false] — don't show progress information. silent but slaying 🤫
• --sub-commands[=false] — use with help or --help to view sub-commands
• -v, --verbose[=false] — show all information messages
• --version[=false] — print version number

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🌈 EXAMPLE 🌈

incus snapshot create u1 snap0
     Create a snapshot of "u1" called "snap0".

incus snapshot create u1 snap0 < config.yaml
     Create a snapshot of "u1" called "snap0" with the configuration from "config.yaml".

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💜 SEE ALSO 💜

• incus-snapshot(1) — go read her sister, she eats too 🍓

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⭐ HISTORY ⭐

24-Sep-2026 Auto generated by spf13/cobra

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okay that's the whole page bestie, you ate that 💖 this one was auto generated by spf13/cobra, dated Sep 2026, and it lives inside the Incus - Command line client(1) manual. now go make some snapshots, periodt. 👑✨🎀