For more information about snapshot management, please refer to the VSS Guidelines.
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- Login to https://vss-portal.eis.utoronto.ca
- Look for the VM to edit and click Image Modified
- Click on the Snapshot button:
Image Modified - Select the date and time the snapshot will taken at:
Image ModifiedImage ModifiedImage Modified - Select the lifetime for the snapshot (72 hours max):
Image Modified
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- Click OK and you should see a snapshot request number at the bottom of the screen:
Image Modified - You will get a confirmation email for the request submission, when the snapshot has been created and deleted.
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The following steps should guide you through the process of requesting a virtual machine snapshot using the |
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- to configure your VSS credentials. If you have already done this, please go to next step.
Look for the virtual machine UUID (identifier) to submit the snapshot request: Code Block |
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vss compute vm ls --filter name torvalds
uuid name
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50125399-17eb-f466-cef3-61592022569a 1712Q-cocky_torvalds_2
50124670-bfd4-95bc-1d6e-ea3c20ab0bbb 1610Q-cocky_torvalds_15 |
Use the vss compute vm set <uuid> snapshot command to submit a snapshot request as follows: Code Block |
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vss compute vm set 50124670-bfd4-95bc-1d6e-ea3c20ab0bbb snapshot --action mk \
--description "Before difficult upgrade" --timestamp "2018-02-19 09:00" --lifetime 72 |
Once the request is submitted, you can follow up the request status with the vss request snapshot command: Code Block |
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vss request snapshot ls --sort created_on,desc
id created_on updated_on status vm_name vm_uuid
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103 2018-02-09 10:09:32 EST 2018-02-09 10:09:32 EST Submitted 1610Q-cocky_torvalds_15 50124670-bfd4-95bc-1d6e-ea3c20ab0bbb |
- You will get a confirmation email for the request submission, when the snapshot has been created and deleted.
- For more information about how to Revert or Delete a Snapshot using the CLI, please refer to the CLI
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