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Deleting a disk snapshot

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Updated at May 5, 2025

Warning

Deleting a snapshot is permanent and cannot be undone, so you cannot recover a deleted snapshot. When you delete a snapshot, all the information it stores is erased. The data on the primary disk will remain unchanged.

To delete a snapshot:

  1. In the management console, select the folder containing your snapshot.
  2. Select Compute Cloud.
  3. In the left-hand panel, select Snapshots.
  4. In the line with the snapshot, click and select Delete.
  5. In the window that opens, click Delete.

The folder specified when creating the CLI profile is used by default. To change the default folder, use the yc config set folder-id <folder_ID> command. You can specify a different folder using the --folder-name or --folder-id parameter.

  1. See the description of the CLI commands for deleting a snapshot:

    yc compute snapshot delete --help

  2. Get a list of snapshots in the default folder:

    yc compute snapshot list

    Result:

    +----------------------+-----------------+----------------------+--------+----------------------------+
|          ID          |       NAME      |     PRODUCT IDS      | STATUS |        DESCRIPTION         |
+----------------------+-----------------+----------------------+--------+----------------------------+
| fd8rlt1u2rf0l******* | first-snapshot  | f2ecl5vhsftd******** | READY  | my first snapshot via CLI  |
| fhmolt1u2rf0******** | second-snapshot | f2eclmol5lps******** | READY  | my second snapshot via CLI |
+----------------------+-----------------+----------------------+--------+----------------------------+

  3. Select ID or NAME of the snapshot in question.

  4. Delete the snapshot:

    yc compute snapshot delete \
  --name first-snapshot

If you do not have Terraform yet, install it and configure its Yandex Cloud provider.

To delete a snapshot created with Terraform, follow these steps:

  1. In the command line, go to the directory with the Terraform configuration file.

  2. Delete the resources using this command:

    terraform destroy

    Alert

    Terraform will delete all the resources you created in the current configuration, such as clusters, networks, subnets, and VMs.

  3. Type yes and press Enter.

Use the delete REST API method for the Snapshot resource or the SnapshotService/Delete gRPC API call.

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