📄️ Overview
The Volume Snapshot feature allows users to create point-in-time backups of persistent volumes. These snapshots serve as a safeguard, enabling users to restore volumes to their previous states in the event of accidental data loss, corruption, or system failure. This functionality is especially crucial in high-availability and mission-critical environments.
📄️ Create a Volume
Creating a volume from an existing snapshot allows you to quickly restore or replicate your storage environment without the need to start from scratch. This is especially helpful for backup, disaster recovery, or creating pre-configured environments.
📄️ Create Template
Creating a template from an existing volume snapshot allows you to turn a pre-configured disk image into a reusable system image for future virtual machine (VM) deployments. This process saves time, ensures consistency across VMs, and enables faster provisioning by eliminating repetitive OS installations and configuration steps.
📄️ Reverting a Volume Snapshot
The Revert Snapshot feature in the Cloud Management Portal allows you to roll back a root volume to a previous state using an existing volume snapshot. This is especially useful when you need to restore a VM to a known working configuration after an update failure, system misconfiguration, or other changes that affected the VM's performance or stability.
📄️ Deleting a Volume Snapshot
Volume snapshots are point-in-time backups of your root or data disks. While snapshots are essential for disaster recovery, routine maintenance, or system rollbacks, there may be times when you need to clean up unused or obsolete snapshots to optimize your storage usage and reduce associated costs.