NAME

gcloud-compute-disks-snapshot - Snapshot Google Compute Engine persistent disks

SYNOPSIS

gcloud compute disks snapshot
  DISK_NAME [DISK_NAME …]
  [--description DESCRIPTION]
  [--format FORMAT]
  [--help]
  [--project PROJECT]
  [--quiet, -q]
  [--snapshot-names SNAPSHOT_NAME [SNAPSHOT_NAME …]]
  [--zone ZONE]
  [-h]

DESCRIPTION

gcloud compute disks snapshot creates snapshots of persistent disks. Snapshots are useful for backing up data or copying a persistent disk.

POSITIONAL ARGUMENTS

DISK_NAME [DISK_NAME …]

The names of the disks to snapshot.

FLAGS

--description DESCRIPTION

An optional, textual description for the snapshots being created.

--format FORMAT

Specify a format for printed output. By default, a command-specific human-friendly output format is used. Setting this flag to one of the available options will serialize the result of the command in the chosen format and print it to stdout. Supported formats are: "json", "text", "yaml".

--help

Display detailed help.

--project PROJECT

Google Cloud Platform project to use for this invocation.

--quiet

Disable all interactive prompts when running gcloud commands. If input is required, defaults will be used, or an error will be raised.

--snapshot-names SNAPSHOT_NAME [SNAPSHOT_NAME …]

Names to assign to the snapshots. Without this option, the name of each snapshot will be a random, 16-character hexadecimal number that starts with a letter. The values of this option run parallel to the disks specified. For example,

$ gcloud compute disks snapshot my-disk-1 my-disk-2 my-disk-3 \
    --snapshot-name snapshot-1 snapshot-2 snapshot-3

will result in “my-disk-1” being snapshotted as “snapshot-1”, “my-disk-2” as “snapshot-2”, and so on.

--zone ZONE

The zone of the disks to snapshot. If not specified, you will be prompted to select a zone.

To avoid prompting when this flag is omitted, you can set the “compute/zone” property:

gcloud config set compute/zone ZONE

A list of zones can fetched by running:

gcloud compute zones list

To unset the property, run:

gcloud config unset compute/zone

Alternatively, the zone can be stored in the environment variable “CLOUDSDK_COMPUTE_ZONE”.

-h

Print a summary help and exit.

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