Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Documentation

Creating a Snapshot from a Unix-style Instance

You can create a snapshot from an instance that you've mounted the file system to. Snapshots are created under the root folder of the file system, in a hidden directory named .snapshot.

  1. Connect to the instance and open a command window.

  2. Navigate to the file system's hidden .snapshot directory. Type the following, replacing yourmountpoint with the name of the directory where you mounted the file system. 

    cd /mnt/yourmountpoint/.snapshot

  3. Use the mkdir command to create a directory in the hidden .snapshot directory. The directory you create is the snapshot. Give the snapshot a name that helps you identify it. Avoid using confidential information in the snapshot name. For example:

    mkdir snapshot-Jan1

  4. Use the ls command to verify that a snapshot has been created in the .snapshot directory.

    ls