Take a snapshot for Storage

This guide describe how to take a snapshot for a storage. You can create snapshot a storage even while they are attached to running instances.

Before doing a snapshot for Storage, you must first have a Storage. If you don't have a Storage yet, you can create a Storage in Create Block Storage

• Go to Snapshot page. Under the Take a snapshot for instance form, there is a Take a snapshot for storage form.

Snapshot Page

• Fill in the form Take a Snapshot for Storage.

Column	Description
Billing Type	Billing type option is Fixed or trial
Choose A Storage	Choose storage that you want to take snapshot, for example storage-windows-test
Enter Snapshot Name	Enter the name of the snapshot, for example storage-win-snapshot

After all the fields are filled, click the Take Snapshot button.

Take a Snapshot for Storage

• If it is successful there will be a notification "Snapshot win_snap_storage has been Successfully Created". A list of snapshots storage will appear, namely:

Column	Description
Name	Snapshot name
Status	Snapshot state "active" or "Not Ready Yet"
Storage Name	The name of storage being snapshot
Size	Snapshot size
Created Date	Snapshot creation time
Action	Option for create or delete the snapshot

Take Snapshot - Process

Notification