January 2018
Intermediate to advanced
398 pages
7h 54m
English
Cinder volume snapshots provide a way to nondisruptively copy a volume; allowing for in-situ volume backups to be taken. It also enables more advanced backup features and provides the ability to boot an instance from a given snapshot or from a point in time.
In this section, we will show you how to create a snapshot, mount a volume based off a snapshot, refresh a snapshot, and delete a given snapshot.
To work with Cinder volume snapshots, you will need the following:
openstack command-line clientopenrc file with appropriate credentials for the environmentTo create a snapshot, the volume must be first detached from an instance:
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