Backups

Backups is the current Snowflake name, previously WORM snapshots (since November 2025).

WORM snapshots → Backups

Discrete, immutable point-in-time copies of Snowflake objects, used for disaster recovery and for compliance retention that must survive deletion.

• Its own documentation still describes a backup as a snapshot, because the concept kept the old word even after the commands stopped using it. 🔗
• The rename reached the billing system before it reached most of the SQL - the metering service type flipped to BACKUP while the old commands were still the documented ones. 🔗

Category

Data governance

In use from

November 2025🔗

Also known as

CREATE BACKUP SET, BACKUP POLICY, WORM backups

Verified

2026-09-12