How to Create a Snapshot in Google cloud Platform.

Snapshots incrementally back up data from your persistent disks. After created a snapshot to capture the current state of the disk we can use it to restore that data to a new disk.We can create snapshots from disks even while they are attached to running virtual machine (VM) instances.

• Login to Google cloud platform portal.
• Click on Compute Engine.
• Select Snapshots.

• Click on Create Snapshot.

• Provide the Snapshot name.
• First Create a disk and to how create the same click on link http://www.hackerxone.com/blog/how-create-disk-google-cloud-platform
• Then select the disk.(For which needs to take a snapshot)

• Click on Add Label.
• Provide the Key name and value for Snapshot.
• Click on create.