Salesforce DX Developer Guide

How Salesforce Developer Experience (DX) Tooling Changes the Way You Work
Provide Developers Access to Salesforce DX Tools
Project Setup
Authorization
Metadata Coverage
Scratch Orgs
Supported Scratch Org Editions and Allocations
Build Your Own Scratch Org Definition File
Create a Scratch Org Based on an Org Shape
Create Scratch Orgs
Scratch Org Snapshots
Get Started with Scratch Org Snapshots
Salesforce CLI Snapshot Commands
Create a Scratch Org Snapshot
Create a Snapshot for Use with Namespaced Scratch Orgs
Create a Scratch Org Based on a Snapshot
Create a Package Version Based on a Snapshot
Manage and Maintain Your Snapshots
Select the Salesforce Release for a Scratch Org
Deploy Source From Your Project to the Scratch Org
Retrieve Source from the Scratch Org to Your Project
Scratch Org Users
Manage Scratch Orgs from the Dev Hub Org
Scratch Org Error Codes
Sandboxes
Track Changes Between Your Project and Org
Work with Data
Salesforce DX MCP Server and Tools (Beta)
Development
Build and Release Your App
Unlocked Packages
Continuous Integration
Troubleshoot Salesforce DX
Limitations for Salesforce DX
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Salesforce CLI Snapshot Commands

You must use Salesforce CLI commands to create and manage your scratch org snapshots.
org create snapshot
Create a snapshot of a scratch org.
org delete snapshot
Delete a scratch org snapshot.
org get snapshot
Get details about a scratch org snapshot.
org list snapshot
List scratch org snapshots that belong to the specified Dev Hub org.

Get Help in the Terminal for Command Syntax

The --help and -h flags enable you to get varying levels of help (comprehensive or abbreviated) right in the command window:

Example:

1sf org create snapshot --help