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[Sam Stoelinga <sammiestoel@xxxxxxxxx>]

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@xxxxxxxxx>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@xxxxxx> 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@xxxxxxxxx]
> *Sent:* 30 January 2013 00:32
> *To:* Day, Phil
> *Cc:* openstack@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (openstack@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx) (
> openstack@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx)
> *Subject:* Re: [Openstack] nova client support for restore from soft
> delete ?****
> ** **
> ** **
> On Jan 29, 2013, at 8:55 AM, "Day, Phil" <philip.day@xxxxxx> 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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