Creates a new EC2 EBS snapshot, based on a volume.
A snapshot is a copy of an existing EC2 volume, saved to Amazon's S3 storage service. The volume to base the snapshot on is set with the --volume
flag, followed by a volume ID as show by list-ec2-volumes.pl
.
Once created, a snapshot can be used to create a new volume with the --snapshot
flag to the create-ec2-snapshot.pl
command.
Example usage
cloudmin create-ec2-snapshot --volume vol-8637d2ef --account 12345678 Creating EC2 snapshot for account 12345678 from volume vol-8637d2ef .. .. created with ID snap-3a23c453
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Creates a new EC2 EBS snapshot, based on a volume. cloudmin create-ec2-snapshot --account number --volume id