---
title: "Snapshots"
description: "Snapshots on E2E save a node or a Block Storage volume as it is at one moment, so you keep a known good point to build from."
content_type: "overview"
product: "snapshots"
platform: "MyAccount"
url: "/myaccount/snapshots/"
---

# Snapshots

A snapshot saves a node or a volume as it is at one moment, so you keep a known good point to
build from. Take one before an upgrade, a configuration change, or anything else where you want
the earlier state kept. Take one by hand, or let a schedule take them for you and clear out the
old ones.

## What you can snapshot

| Resource             | What the snapshot holds                                            | Where you take it                                    |
| -------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------ | ---------------------------------------------------- |
| Node                 | The node's root disk, plus any of its attached volumes you include | **Snapshot Now** on the node's **Snapshots** tab     |
| Block Storage volume | That one volume                                                    | **Create Snapshot** in the volume's **Actions** menu |

From a volume snapshot you create a new volume with the saved data. From a node snapshot you
save an image, then launch nodes from that point.

## What you can do with snapshots

Node snapshots:

- [Create a snapshot of a node](/myaccount/node/how-to/create-a-snapshot/)
- [Schedule snapshots for a node](/myaccount/node/how-to/schedule-snapshots/)
- [Create an image from a snapshot](/myaccount/node/how-to/create-an-image-from-a-snapshot/)
- [Delete a snapshot](/myaccount/node/how-to/delete-a-snapshot/)

Volume snapshots:

- [Create a volume snapshot](/myaccount/volumes/how-to/create-a-volume-snapshot/), and a new
  volume from it
- [Schedule volume snapshots](/myaccount/volumes/how-to/schedule-volume-snapshots/)

## How snapshots fit together

- [Snapshots, backups, and saved images](/myaccount/snapshots/concepts/snapshots-vs-backups-vs-images/):
  which one to reach for, depending on what you want to get back.
- [How snapshots work](/myaccount/snapshots/concepts/how-snapshots-work/): what a snapshot
  holds, when you can take one, and how it is kept and charged.
- [Snapshot schedules and lifecycle rules](/myaccount/snapshots/concepts/scheduling-and-retention/):
  snapshots taken for you, and old ones cleared out on their own.