Creating and deleting backups manually
You can initiate an instant backup job for a single volume by creating a backup manually. Such a backup does not have a retention policy and can only be deleted manually.
Limitations
- You cannot delete a backup that has dependent backups. To delete a full backup chain, start deleting its backups one by one backwards, starting from the latest incremental backup and finishing with the full backup.
Prerequisites
- The backup service is enabled in the command-line interface, as described in Provisioning the backup service.
To manually create a volume backup
Admin panel
- On the Compute > Storage > Volumes screen, click a volume that you want to back up.
- On the volume right pane, click Create backup now.
Once the backup is created, it will appear on the Compute > Backup > Recovery points screen.
Command-line interface
Use the following command:
vinfra service compute volume backup create [--name <name>] [--description <description>] <volume>
--name <name>
- Volume backup name
--description <description>
- Volume backup description
<volume>
- Volume ID or name
For example, to create the backup mybackup
of the volume vm1/cirros/Boot volume
, run:
# vinfra service compute volume backup create 'vm1/cirros/Boot volume' --name mybackup
The backup will appear in the vinfra service compute volume backup list
output:
# vinfra service compute volume backup list +--------------------------------------+----------+-----------+--------------------------------------+ | id | name | status | volume_id | +--------------------------------------+----------+-----------+--------------------------------------+ | 2ac79114-ab96-4c2a-8019-05819bbcdc51 | mybackup | available | 5a66c317-a218-4963-9f3e-d8f459e3d343 | +--------------------------------------+----------+-----------+--------------------------------------+
To manually delete a volume backup
Admin panel
- On the Compute > Backup > Recovery points screen, click the recovery point that you want to delete.
- Click Delete in the confirmation window.
After deleting a recovery point, all its data will be lost.
Command-line interface
Use the following command:
vinfra service compute volume backup delete [--force] <volume-backup>
<volume-backup>
- Volume backup ID or name
--force
- Forcibly delete a backup
For example, to delete the backup mybackup
, run:
# vinfra service compute volume backup delete mybackup