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For more information about snapshot management, please refer to the VSS Guidelines.

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  1. Login to https://vss-portal.eis.utoronto.ca
  2. Look for the VM to edit and click Image Modified
  3. Click on the Snapshot button:
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  4. Select the date and time the snapshot will taken at:
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  5. Select the lifetime for the snapshot (72 hours max):
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  1. Click OK and you should see a snapshot request number at the bottom of the screen:
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  2. 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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via https://vss-cli.eis.utoronto.caor a local VSS CLI install

  1. Run vss configure

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  1.  to configure your VSS credentials. If you have already done this, please go to next step.
  2. Look for the virtual machine UUID (identifier) to submit the snapshot request:

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    vss compute vm ls --filter name torvalds
    uuid                                  name
    ------------------------------------  -----------------------
    50125399-17eb-f466-cef3-61592022569a  1712Q-cocky_torvalds_2
    50124670-bfd4-95bc-1d6e-ea3c20ab0bbb  1610Q-cocky_torvalds_15


  3. Use the vss compute vm set <uuid> snapshot command to submit a snapshot request as follows:

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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


  4. Once the request is submitted, you can follow up the request status with the vss request snapshot command:

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    vss request snapshot ls --sort created_on,desc
      id  created_on               updated_on               status           vm_name                  vm_uuid
    ----  -----------------------  -----------------------  ---------------  -----------------------  ------------------------------------
     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


  5. You will get a confirmation email for the request submission, when the snapshot has been created and deleted.
  6. For more information about how to Revert or Delete a Snapshot using the CLI, please refer to the CLI

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  1. documentation here.


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