Delete Snapshot
Snapshots store data copies at a specific point in time. When you remove unnecessary snapshots, you free up storage space, allowing you to utilize that space for other purposes or save storage costs. This also helps manage costs more effectively in cloud computing services, where you often pay based on storage capacity and usage time.
However, maintaining unnecessary or irrelevant snapshots unrelated to the recovery process can make data management complex. Deleting unnecessary snapshots helps maintain cleanliness and efficiency in your data management.
Moreover, note that snapshots can also impact system and server performance. When there are too many snapshots or they are created and maintained indiscriminately, the overall performance of the system and storage can be affected. Deleting unnecessary snapshots can improve this performance.
Limitations
When you delete a snapshot, the data contained within that snapshot will be deleted, but the disk where the snapshot was created remains unaffected.
Deleting a snapshot means you won't be able to restore data from them in the future. Ensure you have a backup strategy in place if you need to retain data for compliance or disaster recovery purposes.
You can delete snapshots for Servers and Volumes on our control panel, please refer to the following instructions:
Note
You can only delete Volume snapshots on the Snapshot management page; to delete Server snapshots, you need to delete them on the Server detail page.
Delete Volume Snapshot on the Snapshot list page on the Dashboard
Open the vServer dashboard at https://hcm-3.console.vngcloud.vn/vserver/.
In the navigation sidebar, select Snapshot.
Choose the Snapshot you want to delete, then select Action, click Delete Snapshot.
Delete Volume Snapshot on the Volume detail page on the Dashboard
Open the vServer Dashboard at https://hcm-3.console.vngcloud.vn/vserver/.
In the navigation sidebar, select Volume.
Click on the Volume name to go to the Volume detail page
Switch to the Associated Snapshot Tab
Select the Snapshot Volume to be deleted and choose Delete
Delete Server Snapshot on the Server detail page on the Dashboard
Open the vServer Dashboard at https://hcm-3.console.vngcloud.vn/vserver/.
In the navigation sidebar, select Server.
Click on the Server name to go to the Server detail page
Switch to the Associated Snapshot Tab
Select the Snapshot Server to be deleted and choose Delete.
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