Snapshots
Category: Beginner
Difficulty: 1 out of 5
Duration: 15 minutes
1. Overview
2. Instance snapshots
3. Creating an instance snapshot
4. Launching an instance from a snapshot
5. Deleting an instance snapshot
6. Snapshots for volume storage
7. Creating a volume snapshot
8. Summary
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Summary
In this tutorial, you learnt how to:
- Create a snapshot of an instance
- Launch an instance from a snapshot
- Create a snapshot of a volume
- Launch a new volume from your snapshot
A reminder:
Instance snapshots only copy data from the primary root disk of your instance, not from any mounted volume storage. These need a separate snapshot.
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