Google Compute Engine: How to snapshot a VM's disk
问题 I'm trying to follow these instructions: https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/disks#creating_snapshots It's not obvious to me if I'm supposed to run the "gcloud compute disks snapshot DISK" command from my personal machine, or on the VM over SSH. I tried the former and I couldn't figure out an argument for DISK that worked. So I SSH'ed into the machine and ran $ gcloud compute disks snapshot / I left that running for several hours, without seeing any indication of progress. Now when I try to