For more information about snapshot management, please refer to the VSS Guidelines.
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ITS Private Cloud Portal
Login
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Look for the VM to edit and click
Click on the Snapshot button:
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Select the date and time the snapshot will taken at:
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Select the lifetime for the snapshot (72 hours max):
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Click OK and you should see a snapshot request number at the bottom of the screen:
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You will get a confirmation email for the request submission, when the snapshot has been created and deleted.
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Command-Line Interface (vss-cli)
The following steps should guide you through the process of requesting a virtual machine snapshot using the VSS CLI either local install or either viahttps://vss-cli.eis.utoronto.ca or a local ITS Private Cloud Command Line Interface vss-cli
Run
vss-cli configure
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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:
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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-cli compute vm set <name-or-vm-id> snapshotcommand to submit a snapshot request as follows:Code Block vss-cli --wait compute vm set
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{name-
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or-
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vm-id} snapshot
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mk \ --description "Before difficult upgrade" --timestamp "
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2020-
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04-
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27
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16:
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53" \ --lifetime 72
Once the request is submitted, you can follow up the request status with the
vss-cli request
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snapshotcommand:Code Block vss-cli request snapshot ls --sort created_on,desc id created_on updated_on
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status vm_moref vm_name action snapshot.from_date
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snapshot.to_
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date ---- --------------------------- --------------------------- --------- ---------- --------------- -------- --------------------------- ---------------------------
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10
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2020-
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04-
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27 Mon
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16:
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53:
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34
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EDT
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2020-
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04-
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28 Tue
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16:
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52:00 EDT PROCESSED vm-2183 2004T-Frontend2 DONE
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2020-
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04-27 Mon 16:53:00 EDT 2020-04-28 Tue 16:53:00 EDTYou 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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documentation here.
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