Getting information about a disk snapshot
- In the management console
, select the folder containing your disk snapshot. - Select Compute Cloud.
- In the left-hand panel, select
Snapshots. - Select the disk snapshot you need.
- The Overview page will display detailed information about the disk snapshot.
If you do not have the Yandex Cloud command line interface yet, install and initialize it.
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.
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View the description of the CLI command to get information about a disk snapshot:
yc compute snapshot get --help
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Get information about your disk snapshot by specifying its name or ID:
yc compute snapshot get <disk_snapshot_name>
Result:
id: fd8if7bg95dm******** folder_id: b1gmit33ngp3******** created_at: "2023-10-30T14:52:37Z" ... - f2e8f6be9gr1******** status: READY source_disk_id: fhm0r72q6mvq********
Terraform
For more information about the provider resources, see the documentation on the Terraform
If you change the configuration files, Terraform automatically detects which part of your configuration is already deployed, and what should be added or removed.
If you don't have Terraform, install it and configure the Yandex Cloud provider.
To get information about a disk snapshot using Terraform:
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Add the
data
andoutput
sections to the Terraform configuration file:data "yandex_compute_snapshot" "my_snapshot" { snapshot_id = "<disk_snapshot_ID>" } output "snapshot" { value = data.yandex_compute_snapshot.my_snapshot.storage_size }
Where:
data "yandex_compute_snapshot"
: Description of the disk snapshot as a data source:snapshot_id
: Disk snapshot ID.
output "snapshot"
: Output variable that contains information about the disk snapshot size:value
: Returned value.
You can replace
storage_size
with any other parameter to get the information you need. For more information about theyandex_compute_snapshot
data source parameters, see the provider documentation . -
Create resources:
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In the terminal, change to the folder where you edited the configuration file.
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Make sure the configuration file is correct using the command:
terraform validate
If the configuration is correct, the following message is returned:
Success! The configuration is valid.
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Run the command:
terraform plan
The terminal will display a list of resources with parameters. No changes are made at this step. If the configuration contains errors, Terraform will point them out.
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Apply the configuration changes:
terraform apply
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Confirm the changes: type
yes
in the terminal and press Enter.
Terraform will create the required resources and display the output variable values in the terminal. To check the results, run:
terraform output
Result:
snapshot = 7
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To get detailed information about a disk snapshot, use the get REST API method for the Snapshot resource or the SnapshotService/Get gRPC API call.