INCUS.STORAGE.VOLUME.SNAPSHOT.CREATE(1)

🌸 incus-storage-volume-snapshot-create 💖

okay bestie, welcome to the Incus command line client manual, page one of one, and it's about making snapshots of your storage volumes. yes. the little time-travel copies. the "oops I broke it, gimme yesterday back" button. iconic behavior fr fr ✨

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🎀 NAME 🎀

incus-storage-volume-snapshot-create — Snapshot storage volumes

like. that's the whole name, it's a mouthful, but it does exactly what it says on the tin 💅

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🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

incus storage volume snapshot create [:]  [] [flags]

ngl the synopsis up there is looking a little scrambled in the source, bestie — I'm reproducing it character for character because that's the rule, no cap. The real energy is: point it at a pool and a volume and a snapshot name, sprinkle flags on top 🫶

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✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

Description:

Snapshot storage volumes

that's it. that's the description. short, sweet, main character energy, zero filler. you give it a storage volume, it makes you a snapshot. obsessed 💖

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💅 OPTIONS 💅

• --description="" — the snapshot description. give your baby a little caption, a little lore, a little "pre-chaos backup" moment 🎀
• --expiry="" — set an expiry for the new snapshot. it takes either a time span like 1d 3H, or a date written in the 2006/01/02 15:04 MST format. so you can be like "this one's cute but it's leaving at some point" 🕐
• --no-expiry[=false] — ignore any auto-expiry that's already configured on the storage volume. like, yes I know you had a schedule, we're not doing that today 🙈
• --reuse[=false] — if the snapshot name already exists, delete it and create a brand new one. ⚠️ bestie this one deletes the old snapshot, so like. be aware. that's the deal, that's the trade 💀
• --target="" — cluster member name. for when you need to be specific about which member of the cluster gang handles this 🧚

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🌈 OPTIONS INHERITED FROM PARENT COMMANDS 🌈

these come free with the family, you didn't ask but you got 'em anyway, it's giving nepo baby 👑

• --debug[=false] — show all debug messages. everything. the whole firehose 🔥
• --explain[=false] — if the command is valid, explain its parsed arguments instead of running it. it just talks about what it would do. very "tell me about your feelings" of it 🫶
• --force-local[=false] — force using the local unix socket
• -h, --help[=false] — print help. the classic. the goat 🐐
• --project="" — override the source project
• -q, --quiet[=false] — don't show progress information. shhh. silent mode. stealth mode 🥷
• --sub-commands[=false] — use with help or --help to view sub-commands
• -v, --verbose[=false] — show all information messages. the chattier sibling of debug basically 🗣️
• --version[=false] — print version number

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🌟 EXAMPLE 🌟

okay here's the actual usage, look how easy:

  incus storage volume snapshot create default foo snap0
      Create a snapshot of "foo" in pool "default" called "snap0"

  incus storage volume snapshot create default vol1 snap0 < config.yaml
      Create a snapshot of "foo" in pool "default" called "snap0" with the configuration from "config.yaml"

first one: snapshot "foo" in pool "default", name it "snap0". done. ate. 💅

second one: same deal but you're piping config in from config.yaml with <. (and yes, the original text says "foo" in that second description even though the command says vol1 — I'm keeping it exactly as written because facts stay facts, bestie 🙈). Also, vol1 in the second example — same command name for the volume. Copy-paste energy is undefeated.

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👑 SEE ALSO 👑

• incus-storage-volume-snapshot(1) — the parent command, go say hi to it, it raised this one

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💜 HISTORY 💜

24-Sep-2026 — Auto generated by spf13/cobra. yeah, a robot wrote the bones of this, and I just gave it a glow-up ✨

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and that's the whole page, bestie!! this was auto generated by spf13/cobra, dated Sep 2026, part of the Incus — Command line client manual. go forth and snapshot responsibly, and remember: --reuse will absolutely delete your old one, so vibe check before you yolo 🫶💖🎀