LXC.STORAGE.VOLUME.SNAPSHOT(1)

✨ lxc-storage-volume-snapshot ✨

okay bestie, you're in the LXD - Command line client(1) zone 💅 and this page is literally about one thing: making snapshots of your storage volumes. cute, fast, iconic. let's go 🎀

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🌸 NAME 🌸

lxc-storage-volume-snapshot — snapshot your storage volumes, periodt 💖

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

lxc storage volume snapshot [:]  [] [flags]

⭐ DESCRIPTION ⭐

Description:

Snapshot storage volumes ✨

that's the whole vibe. it snapshots storage volumes. no cap. 🫶

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💅 OPTIONS 💅

• --no-expiry[=false] — ignore any configured auto-expiry for the storage volume. like, let it live forever, main character energy 👑
• --reuse[=false] — if the snapshot name already exists, delete it and create a new one. so if the name's taken it's not a whole crisis, it just gets recycled 🔥
• --target="" — cluster member name. tell it which member of the cluster you mean 🧚

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🎀 OPTIONS INHERITED FROM PARENT COMMANDS 🎀

these are the ones you get for free from the parent command, iykyk 💜

• --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

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🌈 EXAMPLE 🌈

lxc storage volume snapshot default v1 snap0

create a snapshot of "v1" in pool "default" called "snap0". slay 💅

lxc storage volume snapshot default v1 snap0 < config.yaml

create a snapshot of "v1" in pool "default" called "snap0" with the configuration from "config.yaml". obsessed with the config injection tbh 🍓

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🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

• lxc-storage-volume(1) — go read that one too bestie, it's giving parent energy 👑

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🦋 HISTORY 🦋

22-Aug-2026 — auto generated by spf13/cobra 🤖

no thoughts, the machine did it. but she ate 💀

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and that's the page!! 💖 auto generated by spf13/cobra, dated Aug 2026, from the LXD - Command line client(1) manual. mwah, go snapshot something iconic 🌸✨🎀