---
name: "euca-describe-snapshots"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "euca2ools"
version: "3.3.1-2"
release: "Debian 10 (Buster)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/euca-describe-snapshots"
---

# euca-describe-snapshots(1)

Show information about snapshots

## NAME

euca-describe-snapshots - Show information about snapshots

## SYNOPSIS

euca-describe-snapshots \[-a\] \[-o ACCOUNT\] \[-r ACCOUNT\]

- \[--show-empty-fields\] \[-U URL\]

  \[--region USER@REGION\] \[-I KEY\_ID\] \[-S KEY\] \[--security-token TOKEN\] \[--filter NAME=VALUE\] \[--debug\] \[--debugger\] \[--version\] \[-h\] \[SNAPSHOT \[SNAPSHOT ...\]\]

## DESCRIPTION

Show information about snapshots

## DESCRIPTION

By default, only snapshots your account owns and snapshots for which your account has explicit restore permissions are shown.

### positional arguments:

- SNAPSHOT

  limit results to specific snapshots

### optional arguments:

- **-a**, **--all**

  describe all snapshots

- **-o** ACCOUNT, **--owner** ACCOUNT

  limit results to snapshots owned by specific accounts

- **-r** ACCOUNT, **--restorable-by** ACCOUNT

  limit results to snapahots restorable by specific accounts

- **--show-empty-fields**

  show empty values as "(nil)"

- **-U** URL, **--url** URL

  compute service endpoint URL

- **--region** USER@REGION

  region and/or user names to search when looking up config file data

**-I** KEY\_ID, **--access-key-id** KEY\_ID

**-S** KEY, **--secret-key** KEY

**--security-token** TOKEN

- **--filter** NAME=VALUE

  restrict results to those that meet criteria

- **--debug**

  show debugging output

- **--debugger**

  launch interactive debugger on error

- **--version**

  show the program's version and exit

- **-h**, **--help**

  show this help message and exit

### allowed filter names:

- description

  snapshot description

- owner-alias

  snapshot owner's account alias

- owner-id

  snapshot owner's account ID

- progress

  snapshot progress, in percentage snapshot-id start-time            snapshot initiation time status tag-key               key of a tag assigned to the snapshot tag-value             value of a tag assigned to the snapshot tag:KEY               specific tag key/value combination volume-id             source volume ID volume-size