backupvolume

Use the backupvolume command to create a volume snapshot.

Syntax

Read syntax diagramSkip visual syntax diagram backupvolume -fullvolume_namevolume_id

Parameters

-full
(Optional) Specifies that the snapshot generation for the volume should be a full snapshot.
volume_name | volume_id
(Required) Specifies the volume name or ID for the volume being backed up. The value for the volume name must be an alphanumeric string and the value for the volume ID must be a number.

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 vdisk7

The resulting output:

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