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Retrieve an Existing Volume Snapshot

To retrieve the details of a snapshot that has been created from a volume, send a GET request to /v2/volumes/snapshots/$VOLUME_SNAPSHOT_ID.

get/v2/volumes/snapshots/{snapshot_id}

Path parameters

snapshot_idstring required

The unique identifier for the snapshot.

Response

You will get back a JSON object that has a snapshot key. This will contain the standard snapshot attributes

Example response

{
  "snapshot": {
    "id": "8fa70202-873f-11e6-8b68-000f533176b1",
    "name": "big-data-snapshot1475261774",
    "regions": [
      "nyc1"
    ],
    "created_at": "2020-09-30T18:56:14Z",
    "resource_id": "82a48a18-873f-11e6-96bf-000f53315a41",
    "resource_type": "volume",
    "min_disk_size": 10,
    "size_gigabytes": 10,
    "tags": [
      "aninterestingtag"
    ]
  }
}