Yes I noticed the other day that the restore and force_delete admin commands are not in novaclient. I was planning on adding them at some point soon, but it should be a really easy addition if someone wants to tackle it before I get to it.
Vish On Jan 30, 2013, at 2:24 AM, "Day, Phil" <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Vish, > > Sorry, I wasn’t very clear in my original post. I have > reclaim_instance_inteval set, and the instance does go to “SOFT_DELETED”. I > can see that the api extension adds a “restore” verb to the list of actions > on an instance. > > What I was trying to find out was if that additional action was available > from the nova client. E.g is there a “nova restore <xxx>” command ? > Looking through the client code I can’t see one, but thought I might be > missing something. > > Thanks > Phil > > From: Vishvananda Ishaya [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: 30 January 2013 00:32 > To: Day, Phil > Cc: [email protected] ([email protected]) > ([email protected]) > Subject: Re: [Openstack] nova client support for restore from soft delete ? > > > On Jan 29, 2013, at 8:55 AM, "Day, Phil" <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Hi Folks, > > Does the nova client provide support to restore a soft deleted instance (and > if not, what is the process for pulling an instance back from the brink) ? > > If you have reclaim_instance_interval set then you can restore instances via > an admin api command. If not then you are not going to have much luck > reclaiming the insance becasue the drive will be deleted. If by some chance > you have the backing files still, then you should be able to fix the db and > do a hard reboot on the instance to get it to come back up. Fixing the db is > mostly about setting deleted=False but keep in mind that you will also have > to manually restore the vif and reassociate the fixed ip which hopefully > hasn't been associated to a new instance. > > Vish
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