POSITIONAL ARGUMENTS

DISK_NAME [DISK_NAME ...]

Names of the disks to operate on.

FLAGS

--async

Display information about the operation in progress, without waiting for the operation to complete.

--csek-key-file=FILE

Path to a Customer-Supplied Encryption Key (CSEK) key file, mapping Google Compute Engine resources to user managed keys to be used when creating, mounting, or snapshotting disks.
If you pass - as value of the flag the CSEK will be read from stdin. See cloud.google.com/compute/docs/disks/customer-supplied-encryption for more details.

--description=DESCRIPTION

Text to describe the snapshots being created.

--guest-flush

Create an application consistent snapshot by informing the OS to prepare for the snapshot process. Currently only supported on Windows instances using the Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS).

--labels=[KEY=VALUE,...]

List of label KEY=VALUE pairs to add.
Keys must start with a lowercase character and contain only hyphens (-), underscores (_), lowercase characters, and numbers. Values must contain only hyphens (-), underscores (_), lowercase characters, and numbers.

--snapshot-names=SNAPSHOT_NAME,[...]

Names to assign to the created snapshots. Without this option, the name of each snapshot will be a random 12-character alphanumeric string that starts with a letter. The values of this option run parallel to the disks specified. For example,

gcloud beta compute disks snapshot my-disk-1 my-disk-2 my-disk-3 --snapshot-names snapshot-1,snapshot-2,snapshot-3

will result in my-disk-1 being snapshotted as snapshot-1, my-disk-2 as snapshot-2, and so on.

--storage-location=LOCATION

Google Cloud Storage location, either regional or multi-regional, where snapshot content is to be stored. If absent, a nearby regional or multi-regional location is chosen automatically.

At most one of these may be specified:

--region=REGION

Region of the disks to operate on. If not specified, you may be prompted to select a region.
To avoid prompting when this flag is omitted, you can set the compute/region property:

$ gcloud config set compute/region REGION

A list of regions can be fetched by running:

$ gcloud compute regions list

To unset the property, run:

$ gcloud config unset compute/region

Alternatively, the region can be stored in the environment variable CLOUDSDK_COMPUTE_REGION.

--zone=ZONE

Zone of the disks to operate on. If not specified and the compute/zone property isn't set, you may be prompted to select a zone.
To avoid prompting when this flag is omitted, you can set the compute/zone property:

$ gcloud config set compute/zone ZONE

A list of zones can be fetched by running:

$ gcloud compute zones list

To unset the property, run:

$ gcloud config unset compute/zone

Alternatively, the zone can be stored in the environment variable CLOUDSDK_COMPUTE_ZONE.

GCLOUD WIDE FLAGS

EXAMPLES

$ gcloud beta compute disks snapshot test --zone=us-central1-a \
    --snapshot-names=snapshot-test \
    --description="This is an example snapshot"

NOTES

$ gcloud compute disks snapshot $ gcloud alpha compute disks snapshot