> ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.e2b.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Create snapshot > Create a persistent snapshot from the sandbox's current state. Snapshots can be used to create new sandboxes and persist beyond the original sandbox's lifetime. ## OpenAPI ````yaml /openapi-public.yaml post /sandboxes/{sandboxID}/snapshots openapi: 3.1.0 info: title: E2B API version: 0.1.0 description: >- Complete E2B developer API. Platform endpoints are served on api.e2b.app. Sandbox endpoints (envd) are served on the shared sandbox host (sandbox.e2b.app); target a specific sandbox with the E2b-Sandbox-Id and E2b-Sandbox-Port headers. servers: - url: https://api.e2b.app description: E2B Platform API security: [] tags: - name: Sandboxes - name: Templates - name: Tags - name: Volumes - name: Envd - name: Filesystem - name: Process - name: Teams - name: Secrets - name: Events - name: Webhooks paths: /sandboxes/{sandboxID}/snapshots: servers: - url: https://api.e2b.app description: E2B Platform API post: tags: - Sandboxes summary: Create snapshot description: >- Create a persistent snapshot from the sandbox's current state. Snapshots can be used to create new sandboxes and persist beyond the original sandbox's lifetime. operationId: postSandboxSnapshots parameters: - $ref: '#/components/parameters/sandboxID' requestBody: required: true content: application/json: schema: $ref: '#/components/schemas/SandboxSnapshotRequest' responses: '201': description: Snapshot created successfully content: application/json: schema: $ref: '#/components/schemas/SnapshotInfo' '400': description: Bad request content: application/json: schema: required: - code - message properties: code: type: integer format: int32 description: Error code example: 400 error_code: type: string description: >- Machine-readable semantic error code. Not a closed set; initial values: sandbox_capacity_unavailable, sandbox_placement_timeout, sandbox_no_compatible_node, sandbox_create_failed, internal_server_error. message: type: string description: Error type: object examples: invalidSandboxId: summary: The sandbox ID is malformed value: code: 400 message: Invalid sandbox ID '401': description: Authentication error content: application/json: schema: required: - code - message properties: code: type: integer format: int32 description: Error code example: 401 error_code: type: string description: >- Machine-readable semantic error code. Not a closed set; initial values: sandbox_capacity_unavailable, sandbox_placement_timeout, sandbox_no_compatible_node, sandbox_create_failed, internal_server_error. message: type: string description: Error type: object examples: missingAuthentication: summary: No supported authentication header was supplied value: code: 401 message: authorization header is missing '403': description: Forbidden content: application/json: schema: required: - code - message properties: code: type: integer format: int32 description: Error code example: 403 error_code: type: string description: >- Machine-readable semantic error code. Not a closed set; initial values: sandbox_capacity_unavailable, sandbox_placement_timeout, sandbox_no_compatible_node, sandbox_create_failed, internal_server_error. message: type: string description: Error type: object examples: teamBanned: summary: The team is banned at authentication value: code: 403 message: team is banned teamBlocked: summary: >- The authenticated team is blocked. The message may append a reason value: code: 403 message: team is blocked '404': description: Not found content: application/json: schema: required: - code - message properties: code: type: integer format: int32 description: Error code example: 404 error_code: type: string description: >- Machine-readable semantic error code. Not a closed set; initial values: sandbox_capacity_unavailable, sandbox_placement_timeout, sandbox_no_compatible_node, sandbox_create_failed, internal_server_error. message: type: string description: Error type: object examples: sandboxNotFound: summary: No accessible sandbox or saved snapshot was found value: code: 404 message: >- Sandbox "sandboxid" doesn't exist or you don't have access to it '409': description: Conflict content: application/json: schema: required: - code - message properties: code: type: integer format: int32 description: Error code example: 409 error_code: type: string description: >- Machine-readable semantic error code. Not a closed set; initial values: sandbox_capacity_unavailable, sandbox_placement_timeout, sandbox_no_compatible_node, sandbox_create_failed, internal_server_error. message: type: string description: Error type: object examples: snapshotStateConflict: summary: The current sandbox state does not allow a snapshot value: code: 409 message: >- Sandbox 'sandboxid' cannot be snapshotted while in 'pausing' state '429': description: Too many requests headers: Retry-After: description: >- When present, the number of seconds to wait before retrying the request. required: false schema: type: integer minimum: 0 example: 30 RateLimit-Limit: description: Configured rate-limit burst size. schema: type: integer RateLimit-Remaining: description: Requests remaining in the rate-limit window. schema: type: integer RateLimit-Reset: description: Seconds until the rate-limit window resets. schema: type: integer content: application/json: schema: required: - code - message properties: code: type: integer format: int32 description: Error code example: 429 error_code: type: string description: >- Machine-readable semantic error code. Not a closed set; initial values: sandbox_capacity_unavailable, sandbox_placement_timeout, sandbox_no_compatible_node, sandbox_create_failed, internal_server_error. message: type: string description: Error type: object examples: rateLimitExceeded: summary: A configured API rate limit was exceeded value: code: 429 message: Rate limit exceeded '500': description: Server error content: application/json: schema: required: - code - message properties: code: type: integer format: int32 description: Error code example: 500 error_code: type: string description: >- Machine-readable semantic error code. Not a closed set; initial values: sandbox_capacity_unavailable, sandbox_placement_timeout, sandbox_no_compatible_node, sandbox_create_failed, internal_server_error. message: type: string description: Error type: object examples: operationFailed: summary: Creating the snapshot template fails value: code: 500 message: Error creating snapshot template '503': description: Service unavailable content: application/json: schema: required: - code - message properties: code: type: integer format: int32 description: Error code example: 503 error_code: type: string description: >- Machine-readable semantic error code. Not a closed set; initial values: sandbox_capacity_unavailable, sandbox_placement_timeout, sandbox_no_compatible_node, sandbox_create_failed, internal_server_error. message: type: string description: Error type: object examples: snapshotNodeBusy: summary: The node cannot accept snapshot work value: code: 503 message: >- Sandbox 'sandboxid' cannot be snapshotted right now because its node is busy, please retry security: - ApiKeyAuth: [] components: parameters: sandboxID: name: sandboxID in: path required: true schema: type: string schemas: SandboxSnapshotRequest: type: object properties: name: type: string description: >- Optional name for the snapshot template. If a snapshot template with this name already exists, a new build will be assigned to the existing template instead of creating a new one. SnapshotInfo: type: object required: - snapshotID - names properties: snapshotID: type: string description: >- Identifier of the snapshot template including the tag. Uses namespace/alias when a name was provided (e.g. team-slug/my-snapshot:default), otherwise falls back to the raw template ID (e.g. abc123:default). names: type: array items: type: string description: >- Full names of the snapshot template including team namespace and tag (e.g. team-slug/my-snapshot:v2) securitySchemes: ApiKeyAuth: type: apiKey in: header name: X-API-Key ````