A snapshot allows users to capture the contents of a share at a point in time. Users have the option to restore the data in place, clone the snapshot into a new share. Users can also control access to the snapshot through access rules and mount the snapshot directly as a read-only filesystem. The plugin or driver functionalities that are tested as part of manila_snapshot test are:

• Creating snapshots
• Altering snapshot status
• Deleting or force delete snapshots
• Interacting with share snapshot instances
• Deleting shares with existing snapshots
• Creating larger shares with a snapshot of a smaller size
• Creating shares from snapshot within a different share network
• Deleting snapshot with incorrect share id
• Creating snapshot with incorrect snapshot id
• Listing shares by snapshot id
• Listing and renaming snapshots
• Adding and manipulating snapshot metadata