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Snapshotting a Logical Volume

Snapshots in simplyblock provide point-in-time copies of logical Volumes (LVs), allowing for backup, recovery, or cloning operations without impacting the active workload. Snapshots can be created using the sbctl command line interface to protect critical data or enable development and testing environments based on production data.

Prerequisites

  • A running simplyblock cluster with an existing logical volume.
  • sbctl installed and configured with access to the simplyblock management API.

Creating a Snapshot

To create a snapshot of an existing Logical Volume:

sbctl snapshot add \
  <VOLUME_UUID> \
  <SNAPSHOT_NAME>

Verification

After creation, the snapshot can be listed:

sbctl snapshot list