--- title: "Fly Volumes" layout: docs nav: firecracker toc: false order: 10 --- Fly Volumes are local persistent storage for [Fly Machines](/docs/machines/). A Fly Volume is a slice of an NVMe drive on the same physical server as the Machine on which it's mounted. * **[Fly Volumes overview](/docs/volumes/overview/):** Learn how volumes work and whether they're right for your use case. * **[Fly Launch apps - Add volume storage](/docs/apps/volume-storage/):** Launch an app with volumes or add volume storage to an existing app. * **[Create and manage volumes with flyctl](/docs/volumes/volume-manage/):** Create, extend, copy, destroy, and restore volumes. * **[Manage volume snapshots](/docs/volumes/snapshots/):** We back up your data with volume snapshots. Create a volume snapshot on-demand, change the retention time for automatic snapshots, and restore data from a snapshot. ## Volume references * [Volume states](/docs/volumes/volume-states/) * [flyctl commands - `fly volumes`](/docs/flyctl/volumes/) * [Machines API - Volumes](/docs/machines/api/volumes-resource/)