---
title: cloud hosted deployments create-deployment-es-resource-snapshot-repository cli command
description: Create a snapshot repository for Elasticsearch resource Behaviour flags: --dry-run — validate all inputs and exit without performing any action 
url: https://www.elastic.co/elastic/docs-builder/docs/4075/reference/elastic-cli/cli/cloud/hosted/deployments/create-deployment-es-resource-snapshot-repository
applies_to:
  - Elastic Cloud Serverless: Preview
  - Elastic Stack: Preview
---

# cloud hosted deployments create-deployment-es-resource-snapshot-repository cli command
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</cli-modifiers>

```bash
elastic cloud hosted deployments create-deployment-es-resource-snapshot-repository \
  --deployment-id <deployment-id> \
  --ref-id <ref-id> \
  --source-deployment-id <source-deployment-id> \
  [options]
```

Create a snapshot repository for Elasticsearch resource
**Behaviour flags:**
`--dry-run` — validate all inputs and exit without performing any action

## Options

<definitions>
  <definition term="--deployment-id string required">
    Identifier for the Deployment
  </definition>
  <definition term="--ref-id string required">
    User-specified RefId for the Resource (or '_main' if there is only one)
  </definition>
  <definition term="--source-deployment-id string required">
  </definition>
  <definition term="--input-file string">
    path to a JSON file to use as command input
  </definition>
  <definition term="--dry-run">
    validate all inputs and exit without performing any action (preview changes without applying them)
  </definition>
</definitions>


## Global Options

<definitions>
  <definition term="--json">
    output as JSON
  </definition>
</definitions>