---
title: "Snapshot"
description: "A point-in-time image of a box, its memory and its disk, that new boxes fork from."
term:
  id: "snapshot"
  forms: ["snapshot","snapshots"]
  source: docs
  status: proposed
generated: scripts/generate.ts
verified:
  cli: "0.0.0-mock"
  date: "2026-10-20"
---

> **snapshot**: A point-in-time image of a box, its memory and its disk, that new boxes fork from.

## When Vakna takes one

`vakna snapshot <box>` takes one on request. `vakna fork` takes one first if the box has none since its last change.

```sh
$ vakna snapshot api
```

```prints
snapshot snp_eu1a_z7a8b9c0 taken 0.19s
```

## What a snapshot holds

The box's memory and its disk, at one moment. Processes that were running in the box are running in every box forked from it.