Important: These procedure applies only to Bare Metal Instances. On all other instance types, you should use the backup feature instead.
A snapshot is a full-volume copy of your server and its data. Snapshots are perfect if you want to recover a server from a previous state. They are stored in our secure data centers.
Potential uses:
Requirements
- You have an account and are logged into console.scaleway.com
- You have configured your SSH Key
- You have a running Cloud Instance
Note: To ensure data integrity, it is required to power off your bare metal instance prior to taking a snapshot. On Virtual Cloud instances, Hot Snapshots are available and this step can be skipped.
In the Compute section, select an instance from which you want to make a snapshot. Note that the server must be powered off beforehand. To power off a running server you have two options:
Option 1: On the instance list page, use the dropdown menu next to a server to select Power Off.
Option 2: On the instances overview page, click on the Power off button at the top of the page.
Once your instance is powered off you can snapshot the volumes.
1 . In the Snapshots tab, hover over the + which displays a Create a Snapshot.
2 . Click on Create a Snapshot. The Create a Snapshot page displays.
3 . Enter a name for your snapshot and select a volume from the drop down list.
4 . Click Create a new snapshot
The snapshot is added to your snapshot list.
1 . In the Snapshots tab, click on the … next to the snapshot to be used. A dropdown menu displays:
2 . Select Image from Snapshot. The Create Image from Snapshot pop-up displays.
3 . Enter a name for your image and choose an architecture of the image (arm
, arm64
or x86_64
).
Important: Make sure that the architecture selected corresponds to the system architecture of the snapshot.
4 . Click Create image from snapshot.
The image is added to your image list.
1 . In the Snapshots tab, click on the …. A dropdown menu displays.
2 . Select Volume from Snapshot. The Create Volume from Snapshot pop-up displays.
3 . Enter a name for your volume and choose a storage type.
4 . Click Create Volume from snapshot. The image is added to your image list.
In the previous step, we created a snapshot. We will create a new instance based on the snapshot we took previously.
1 . In the Compute section of the management console, click + Create an Instance
2 . In the Choose an Image section, select the My snapshots tab.
3 . In the list, select the snapshot from which you want to create your new server.
4 . Input the rest of the required information and click Create a new server. This action starts your server. In a few seconds, your server will be ready to use.
All data stored when you create your snapshot will be present on this new server.
Note: You can also choose an image as your snapshot. In the Choose an Image section, select My images.