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ec2-describe-snapshots

From Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud: 2009-07-15

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ec2-describe-snapshots

Description

Describes the status of Amazon EBS snapshots. If no snapshots are specified, Amazon EBS returns information about all snapshots owned by the account. For more information about Amazon EBS, go to the

Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud Developer Guide.

Syntax

ec2-describe-snapshots [snapshot_id ...]

Options

Name Description Required

snapshot_id

The ID of the Amazon EBS snapshot.

Type: String

Default: Describes all snapshots that you own.

Example: snap-78a54011

No

Output

The command returns a table that contains the following information:

  • SNAPSHOT identifier

  • ID of the snapshot

  • ID of the volume

  • Snapshot state (e.g., pending, completed, error)

  • Time stamp when snapshot initiated

  • Percentage of completion

Amazon EC2 displays errors on stderr.

Examples

Example Request

This example describes snapshot snap-78a54011.

PROMPT> ec2-describe-snapshots snap-78a54011
SNAPSHOT snap-78a54011 vol-4d826724 pending 2008-02-15T09:03:58+0000 60%
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