Creating snapshots

Last change on 2025-06-25 • Created on 2025-06-25 • ID: ST-48767

To create a manual snapshot of your Storage Box, or enable daily automatic snapshots of your Storage Box on your Hetzner Console, please open your project, navigate to "Storage Boxes" in the left menu bar, and do the following:

  1. Select the Storage Box of which you want to create the snapshot

    storage-box-list

  2. Go to Snapshots on the upper menu bar

    snapshots

  3. Select one of the two options

    • Take manual snapshot

      Enter a description that will help you distinguish your snapshots later on.

    • Enable automatic snapshots

      When you enable automatic snapshots, you can choose when the snapshots should be taken and also set the maximum number of snapshot slots that sould be used. Once the slot limit is reached, the oldest snapshot will automatically be deleted as soon as a new snapshot is created.

    If you are happy with your settings, click on "Save".

The snapshots should now get created.


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