How to create a snapshot by copying an existing disk in Azure

Question

Hi Team,

I have one VM in Azure. I want to copy the hard disk in a snapshot. How can I do that?

Answer 1

Hi@akhtar,

Azure Managed Disk snapshots are used to create a point in time copy of an existing disk that can be used to create a new VM. You can use the following command to copy the disk in a snapshot.

$ az snapshot create -g MyResourceGroup -n MySnapshot2 --source MyDisk