vultr_snapshot

Provides a Vultr Snapshot resource. This can be used to create, read, modify, and delete Snapshot.

Example Usage

Create a new Snapshot

resource "vultr_instance" "my_instance" {
    label = "my_instance"
    region = "ewr"
    plan = 201
    os_id = 167
}
resource "vultr_snapshot" "my_snapshot" {
    instance_id       = "${vultr_instance.my_instance.id}"
    description  = "my instances snapshot"
}

Argument Reference

The following arguments are supported:

• instance_id - (Required) ID of a given instance that you want to create a snapshot from.
• description - (Optional) The description for the given snapshot.

Snapshots often exceed the default timeout built in to all create requests in the provider. In order to customize that, you may specify a custome value in a timeouts block of the resource definition

• timeouts - (Optional) The create timeout value can be manually set

resource "vultr_snapshot" "sn" {
  instance_id = resource.vultr_instance.test-inst.id
  description = "terraform timeout test"

  timeouts {
    create = "60m"
  }
}

Attributes Reference

The following attributes are exported:

• id - The ID for the given snapshot.
• instance_id - The ID of the instance that the snapshot was created from.
• description - The description for the given snapshot.
• date_created - The date the snapshot was created.
• size - The size of the snapshot in Bytes.
• status - The status for the given snapshot.
• os_id - The os id which the snapshot is associated with.
• app_id - The app id which the snapshot is associated with.

Import

Snapshots can be imported using the Snapshot ID, e.g.

terraform import vultr_snapshot_url.my_snapshot 283941e8-0783-410e-9540-71c86b833992