backupvolume
Use the backupvolume command to create a volume snapshot.
Syntax
Parameters
- -full
- (Optional) Specifies that the snapshot generation for the volume should be a full snapshot.
- volume_name | volume_id | volume_uid
- (Required) Specifies the volume name, ID, or UID for the volume being backed up. The ID value must be a number and the name value must be an alphanumeric string. The UID value must be 32 byte character string.
Description
This command creates a volume snapshot.
The command completes processing when the volume snapshot is taken, and the snapshot is asynchronously transferred to the cloud system.
Important: If a volume belongs to a volume group, you must issue the
backupvolumegroup command instead of the backupvolume command.
An invocation example for creating a full snapshot generation that has existing volume snapshots on the cloud system
backupvolume -full vdisk7The resulting output:
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