LXC.SNAPSHOT(1)

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🌸 LXD - Command line client(1) 🌸

Hey bestie 💖 so this is the lxc command-line client page — the whole manual is literally called LXD - Command line client(1) — and this particular slice of it is all about lxc snapshot. It's short, it's sweet, and it's about to become your new fave.

✨ NAME ✨

lxc-snapshot — Create instance snapshots 🎀

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

lxc snapshot [:] [] [flags]

💅 DESCRIPTION 💅

Description: Create instance snapshots. That's the whole assignment, and it ate 💅

When --stateful is used, LXD attempts to checkpoint the instance's running state, including process memory state, TCP connections, ... — like, the whole live vibe of the thing gets frozen in time 🧊✨ (yes, the original really does trail off with ... at the end, it's giving dramatic pause).

🔥 OPTIONS 🔥

  • --no-expiry[=false] — Ignore any configured auto-expiry for the instance. Your snapshot stays forever, no countdown clock, no expiry anxiety 🫶
  • --reuse[=false] — If the snapshot name already exists, delete and create a new one. Brutal but efficient, ngl 💀
  • --stateful[=false] — Whether or not to snapshot the instance's running state. The memory, the connections, all of it 🔥

👑 OPTIONS INHERITED FROM PARENT COMMANDS 👑

These are the ones you get for free from the parent command, no cap:

  • --debug[=false] — Show all debug messages 🐛
  • --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 🤫
  • --sub-commands[=false] — Use with help or --help to view sub-commands
  • -v, --verbose[=false] — Show all information messages
  • --version[=false] — Print version number

🌈 EXAMPLE 🌈

Okay so here's where it gets fun ✨

lxc snapshot u1 snap0

Create a snapshot of "u1" called "snap0". Iconic, simple, done 💖

lxc snapshot u1 snap0 < config.yaml

Create a snapshot of "u1" called "snap0" with the configuration from "config.yaml". Look at you piping config straight in, main character energy fr fr 👑

🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

  • lxc(1) — the mothership 🫶

🎀 HISTORY 🎀

22-Aug-2026 — Auto generated by spf13/cobra

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