[Openstack] recover a deleted instance by mistake

Tomas Vondra vondra at czech-itc.cz
Fri Jul 22 08:04:28 UTC 2016


David Gabriel <davidgab283 at ...> writes:

> 
> 
> Thank very much.I forget to precise that I use the dashborad to delete the
instance.
> My storage system does not make any redundancy !
> 
> 
> Dears,
> I have recently deleted one instance by mistake.
> Is it possible to recover it ?
> Any help is welcome.
> Thanks in advance.
> regards

Through OpenStack means, no. But if you have the previously mentioned
default configuration, which stores instance disks as qcow2 images, you may
be able to work some magic using ext4magic (undelete tool for journalled ext
fs) on /var/lib/nova/instances of the compute node where it ran on..
Tomas





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