A user snapshot is a data volume that is stored in Ephemeral.
A user snapshot is created in one of the following ways:
You create a user snapshot from an existing database, to capture a specific state of the database.
You create a user snapshot from data that you import from an external source. For more information, go to Creating a user snapshot from imported data.
Tonic Structural creates a user snapshot as the output of a Structural data generation. For more information, in the Structural documentation, go to .
You can use a user snapshot to start a new database.
Ephemeral can also use a user snapshot that is created from an existing database to reactivate a database, if the snapshot is the most recent snapshot of that database.