Creating a one-time snapshot of a storage volume - AWS Storage Gateway

Creating a one-time snapshot of a storage volume

In addition to scheduled snapshots, for Volume Gateways you can take one-time, ad hoc snapshots. By doing this, you can back up your storage volume immediately without waiting for the next scheduled snapshot.

To take a one-time snapshot of your storage volume

  1. Open the Storage Gateway console at https://console.aws.amazon.com/storagegateway/home.

  2. In the navigation pane, choose Volumes, and then choose the volume you want to create the snapshot from.

  3. For Actions, choose Create snapshot.

  4. In the Create snapshot dialog box, type the snapshot description, and then choose Create snapshot.

    You can verify that the snapshot was created using the console.

Your snapshot is listed in the Snapshots in the same row as the volume.