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[Yufang Zhang <yufang521247@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi guys,

I have submitted a patch for this issue. Just FYI.

https://review.openstack.org/#/c/34870/


2013/1/31 Hanyu Xiao <hanyu.xiao@xxxxxxxxx>

>  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@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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