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" <philip....@hp.com> 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:vishvana...@gmail.com] 
> Sent: 30 January 2013 00:32
> To: Day, Phil
> Cc: openstack@lists.launchpad.net (openstack@lists.launchpad.net) 
> (openstack@lists.launchpad.net)
> Subject: Re: [Openstack] nova client support for restore from soft delete ?
>  
>  
> On Jan 29, 2013, at 8:55 AM, "Day, Phil" <philip....@hp.com> 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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