- NAME
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- gcloud filestore instances snapshots describe - display information about a Filestore snapshot
- SYNOPSIS
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gcloud filestore instances snapshots describeSNAPSHOT--instance=INSTANCE(--instance-location=INSTANCE_LOCATION|--instance-region=INSTANCE_REGION) [GCLOUD_WIDE_FLAG …]
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- DESCRIPTION
- Displays information about a Filestore snapshot given a valid snapshot name, as
well as instance name and instance region.
This command can fail for the following reasons:
- The snapshot or instance specified does not exist.
- The active account does not have permission to access the given snapshot.
- EXAMPLES
- To display all information associated with a snapshot of the name
for the instancemy-snapshotfrommy-instance, run:us-central1gcloud filestore instances snapshots describe my-snapshot --instance = my-instance --instance-region = us-central1 - POSITIONAL ARGUMENTS
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SNAPSHOT - Name of the Filestore snapshot to display information about.
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- REQUIRED FLAGS
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--instance=INSTANCE - Name of the Filestore instance the snapshot belongs to.
- Exactly one of these must be specified:
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--instance-location=INSTANCE_LOCATION - Location of the Filestore instance.
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--instance-region=INSTANCE_REGION - Region of the Filestore instance.
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- GCLOUD WIDE FLAGS
- These flags are available to all commands:
--access-token-file,--account,--billing-project,--configuration,--flags-file,--flatten,--format,--help,--impersonate-service-account,--log-http,--project,--quiet,--trace-token,--user-output-enabled,--verbosity.Run
$ gcloud helpfor details. - API REFERENCE
- This command uses the
file/v1API. The full documentation for this API can be found at: https://cloud.google.com/filestore/ - NOTES
- This variant is also available:
gcloud beta filestore instances snapshots describe
gcloud filestore instances snapshots describe
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Last updated 2026-05-27 UTC.

