Deleting a disk snapshot

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Updated at October 17, 2024

Warning

Deleting a snapshot is an operation that you cannot cancel or reverse. You cannot restore a deleted snapshot. When you delete a snapshot, all the information in it is deleted. The data on the main disk will remain unchanged.

To delete a snapshot:

Management console

CLI

Terraform

API

In the management console, select the folder where the snapshot is located.
Select Compute Cloud.
In the left-hand panel, select Snapshots.
In the line with the appropriate snapshot, click and select Delete.
In the window that opens, click Delete.

The folder specified in the CLI profile is used by default. You can specify a different folder using the --folder-name or --folder-id parameter.

See the description of the CLI's delete snapshot commands:
```
yc compute snapshot delete --help
```

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 |
+----------------------+-----------------+----------------------+--------+----------------------------+

Select the ID (ID) or the name (NAME) of the desired snapshot.

Delete the snapshot:

yc compute snapshot delete \
  --name first-snapshot

If you don't have Terraform, install it and configure the Yandex Cloud provider.

If you created a snapshot with Terraform, you can delete it:

In the command line, go to the directory with the Terraform configuration file.
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.
Type yes and press Enter.

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

Deleting a disk snapshot

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