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# Snapshots
Creating, restoring, copying, moving, and verifying snapshots for GridGain 8 clusters from the Control Center Snapshots screen.
The users of GridGain Ultimate edition can manage snapshots via the **Snapshots** tab of the **Snapshots** screen. This tab lets you create, restore, copy, move, delete, and perform integrity checks of snapshots.
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You can also create and manage [snapshot schedules](/docs/tools/enterprise/control-center/gg8/snapshots/snapshot-schedules.md), as well as view [history of snapshot operations](/docs/tools/enterprise/control-center/gg8/snapshots/operation-history.md).
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In addition to the snapshots created in Control Center, the list of snapshots contains the snapshots that were created by using programming APIs or the snapshot management tool. See Snapshots and Recovery or our video guide.
The **Snapshots** screen displays the following information about each snapshot:
To add columns to the table or remove them from the table, select the **Table Columns** option from the table's context menu, then select or clear check boxes for the columns on the list that opens.
| Column | Description |
| ----------- | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| Start Time | Time when the snapshot create operation began. |
| Type | Full or incremental. |
| ID | The snapshot ID. |
| Mode | The method that was used to create the snapshot, automatically on a schedule or manually. |
| Operation | The status of the snapshot operation that is being executed on the snapshot. The column shows the progress of the operation while the operation is in progress, and changes to OK when the operation is complete. Possible values:
- CREATING
- MOVING
- REMOVING
- CHECKING
- COPYING
- RESTORING
|
| Caches | The number of caches included in the snapshot. Click the number to view the names of the caches. |
| Size | The total size of the snapshot data. Displays a human-readable value (for example, `1.0 GB`). Displays `–` if the data is absent. **Hidden by default**. |
| Archive | The compression algorithm used for the snapshot. Possible values: `NONE`, `ZIP`, `ZSTD`, `LZ4`, `SNAPPY`. **Hidden by default**. |
| Compression | The compression level. `-1` means no compression is applied. Valid range is `-1` through `23`. **Hidden by default**. |
## Creating Snapshots
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Before you can create snapshots, snapshot functionality must be enabled. See Enabling Snapshots.
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To create a snapshot:
1. Click **Create snapshot**.
The **Create snapshot** dialog opens.
2. Select the snapshot type: **Full** (default) or **Incremental**.
3. Optionally, to change the default snapshot compression (ZIP, level 1), select the compression type and, if prompted, the compression level.
4. Optionally, to limit the snapshot writing speed to a specific number of Bytes per second, enter the required number of Bytes in the **Write throttling** field.
5. Optionally, to change the default snapshot scope (all caches and cache groups):
1. Select one of the alternative options:
* **Include specific** to include only explicitly specified caches and groups
* **Exclude specific** to include all caches and groups except for explicitly specified ones
2. From the **Caches** and **Cache groups** drop-down lists, select the caches and groups to be included or excluded (depending on the option you have selected in (a) above).
6. Click **Create**.
A snapshot is created in each node's snapshot folder. Each node saves its part of the data. The snapshot folder is specified in the node configuration.
## Restoring Snapshots
To restore a snapshot:
1. Click on the `⋮` icon in the table row that corresponds to the snapshot that you want to restore.
2. From the menu that opens, select **Restore from snapshot**.
The **Restore snapshot \** dialog opens.
By default, you restore all caches and cache groups found in the snapshot.
3. To exclude specific caches and cache groups:
1. Select the **Exclude specific** option.
The dialog layout changes.
2. From the **Caches** and/or **Cache groups** drop-down lists, select the required entities.
4. Alternatively, to restore (include) only specific caches or cache groups:
1. Select the **Include specific** option.
This excludes from the restoration process all caches and groups found in the snapshot.
2. From the **Caches** and/or **Cache groups** drop-down lists, select the entities to restore.
5. Optionally (if you are using the **Exclude specific** or **Include specific** option), select the **Force** check box to extend the include/exclude selection from caches to cache groups the caches belong to. For example, if you chose to exclude cache ABC that belongs to groups A and B, both these groups will be excluded.
6. In the **Comment** field, type a comment regarding the restoration action.
7. Click **Restore**.
## Copying/Moving Snapshots
To move or copy a snapshot to a specific path, click the `⋮` icon and select **Move** or **Copy**. Then, in the dialog box that appears, enter the destination path and click **OK**. The destination path must be available on each node.
## Verifying Snapshot Integrity
To verify that the snapshot data is not broken, run an integrity check. To run the check, click the `⋮` icon and select **Check**.
The `Operation` column indicates that a check is in progress. When the check is finished, the result is shown in the dialog.
* If snapshot is valid, you will see the following result:
* If snapshot is broken, you can view error details:
