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Hi guys:

As I know, soft-delete an instance only power off the instance and then 
mark the db state to "soft-delete".

you can use `nova start ` to poweron the instance.

Thanks.
On 01/31/2013 01:32 PM, Sam Stoelinga wrote:
> It seems we're using start to restore the instance, which also works.
>
> novaclient(request).servers.start(instance_id)
>
> Sam
>
> On Thu, Jan 31, 2013 at 10:43 AM, Vishvananda Ishaya 
> <vishvananda at gmail.com <mailto:vishvananda at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>
>     Yes I noticed the other day that the restore and force_delete
>     admin commands are not in novaclient. I was planning on adding
>     them at some point soon, but it should be a really easy addition
>     if someone wants to tackle it before I get to it.
>
>     Vish
>
>     On Jan 30, 2013, at 2:24 AM, "Day, Phil" <philip.day at hp.com
>     <mailto:philip.day at hp.com>> wrote:
>
>>     Hi Vish,
>>     Sorry, I wasn't very clear in my original post.   I have
>>     reclaim_instance_inteval set, and the instance does go to
>>     "SOFT_DELETED".  I can see that the api extension adds a
>>     "restore" verb to the list of actions on an instance.
>>     What I was trying to find out was if that additional action was
>>     available from the nova client.  E.g is there a "nova restore
>>     <xxx>" command ? Looking through the client code I can't see one,
>>     but thought I might be missing  something.
>>     Thanks
>>     Phil
>>     *From:*Vishvananda Ishaya [mailto:vishvananda@
>>     <mailto:vishvananda@>gmail.com <http://gmail.com>]
>>     *Sent:*30 January 2013 00:32
>>     *To:*Day, Phil
>>     *Cc:*openstack at lists.launchpad.net
>>     <mailto:openstack at lists.launchpad.net>
>>     (openstack at lists.launchpad.net
>>     <mailto:openstack at lists.launchpad.net>)
>>     (openstack at lists.launchpad.net
>>     <mailto:openstack at lists.launchpad.net>)
>>     *Subject:*Re: [Openstack] nova client support for restore from
>>     soft delete ?
>>     On Jan 29, 2013, at 8:55 AM, "Day, Phil" <philip.day at hp.com
>>     <mailto:philip.day at hp.com>> wrote:
>>
>>
>>     Hi Folks,
>>     Does the nova client provide support to restore a soft deleted
>>     instance  (and if not, what is the process for pulling an
>>     instance back from the brink) ?
>>     If you have reclaim_instance_interval set then you can restore
>>     instances via an admin api command. If not then you are not going
>>     to have much luck reclaiming the insance becasue the drive will
>>     be deleted. If by some chance you have the backing files still,
>>     then you should be able to fix the db and do a hard reboot on the
>>     instance to get it to come back up. Fixing the db is mostly about
>>     setting deleted=False but keep in mind that you will also have to
>>     manually restore the vif and reassociate the fixed ip which
>>     hopefully hasn't been associated to a new instance.
>>     Vish
>
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