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Disabling and enabling a disk snapshot schedule

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Updated at October 17, 2024

Disabling a schedule

To disable an automatic disk snapshot schedule:

  1. In the management console, select the folder where the schedule is located.
  2. Select Compute Cloud.
  3. In the left-hand panel, select Snapshots.
  4. Go to the Snapshot schedules tab.
  5. Next to the schedule you want to disable, click and select Stop.
  6. Confirm disabling the schedule.

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.

  1. View the description of the CLI commands for managing schedules:

    yc compute snapshot-schedule --help
yc compute snapshot-schedule disable --help

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

    yc compute snapshot-schedule list --format yaml

    Result:

    - id: fc852cvb1ipd5********
  folder_id: e1ea8s8l71li********
  created_at: "2022-09-28T13:25:02Z"
  name: sched-1
  status: ACTIVE
  schedule_policy:
    start_at: "2022-10-01T00:00:00Z"
    expression: 59 14 */1 * *
  snapshot_spec: {}
- id: fc89n1j15l7f********
  folder_id: e1ea8s8l71li********
  created_at: "2022-09-27T16:04:13Z"
  name: sched-2
  status: ACTIVE
  schedule_policy:
    start_at: "1970-01-01T00:00:00Z"
    expression: 0 */1 * * *
  retention_period: 3600s
  snapshot_spec: {}
- id: fc8bplhqmh2b********
  folder_id: b8gauskl78li********
  created_at: "2022-10-03T13:28:01Z"
  name: sched-3
  description: Daily
  labels:
    machine: file-server
  status: ACTIVE
  schedule_policy:
    start_at: "2022-12-31T19:04:05Z"
    expression: 10 19 ? * *
  snapshot_count: "7"
  snapshot_spec: {}

  3. Disable the selected schedule:

    yc compute snapshot-schedule disable <name_or_ID_of_the_schedule>

    Result:

    done (3s)
id: fc8e52mvchb2********
folder_id: e1ea8s8l71li********
created_at: "2022-09-28T09:15:28Z"
name: sched-1
status: INACTIVE
schedule_policy:
  start_at: "1970-01-01T00:00:00Z"
  expression: 36 14 */1 * *
snapshot_count: "3"
snapshot_spec: {}
  1. Get the list of schedules using the list REST API method for the SnapshotSchedule resource or the SnapshotScheduleService/List gRPC API call.
  2. Disable a snapshot schedule using the disable REST API method for the SnapshotSchedule resource or the SnapshotScheduleService/Disable gRPC API call.

The schedule status will change to INACTIVE: disk snapshots will not be created or deleted.

All snapshot creation and deletion operations that started prior to disabling the schedule will be completed.

Enabling a schedule

To enable an automatic disk snapshot schedule:

  1. In the management console, select the folder where the schedule is located.
  2. Select Compute Cloud.
  3. In the left-hand panel, select Snapshots.
  4. Go to the Snapshot schedules tab.
  5. Next to the schedule you want to enable, click and select Start.

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.

  1. View the description of the CLI commands for managing schedules:

    yc compute snapshot-schedule --help
yc compute snapshot-schedule enable --help

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

    yc compute snapshot-schedule list --format yaml

    Result:

    - id: fc852cvb1ipd5********
  folder_id: e1ea8s8l71li********
  created_at: "2022-09-28T13:25:02Z"
  name: sched-1
  status: ACTIVE
  schedule_policy:
    start_at: "2022-10-01T00:00:00Z"
    expression: 59 14 */1 * *
  snapshot_spec: {}
- id: fc89n1j15l7f********
  folder_id: e1ea8s8l71li********
  created_at: "2022-09-27T16:04:13Z"
  name: sched-2
  status: ACTIVE
  schedule_policy:
    start_at: "1970-01-01T00:00:00Z"
    expression: 0 */1 * * *
  retention_period: 3600s
  snapshot_spec: {}
- id: fc8bplhqmh2b********
  folder_id: b8gauskl78li********
  created_at: "2022-10-03T13:28:01Z"
  name: sched-3
  description: Daily
  labels:
    machine: file-server
  status: ACTIVE
  schedule_policy:
    start_at: "2022-12-31T19:04:05Z"
    expression: 10 19 ? * *
  snapshot_count: "7"
  snapshot_spec: {}

  3. Enable the selected schedule:

    yc compute snapshot-schedule enable <name_or_ID_of_the_schedule>

    Result:

    done (3s)
id: fc8e52mvchb2********
folder_id: e1ea8s8l71li********
created_at: "2022-09-28T09:15:28Z"
name: sched-1
status: ACTIVE
schedule_policy:
  start_at: "1970-01-01T00:00:00Z"
  expression: 36 14 */1 * *
snapshot_count: "3"
snapshot_spec: {}
  1. Get the list of schedules using the list REST API method for the SnapshotSchedule resource or the SnapshotScheduleService/List gRPC API call.
  2. Enable a snapshot schedule using the enable REST API method for the SnapshotSchedule resource or the SnapshotScheduleService/Enable gRPC API call.

The schedule status will change to ACTIVE: new disk snapshots will be created, old ones deleted (if the corresponding parameter of snapshot retention is selected).

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