Taking snapshot of Compute Engine VM
- Creating a Compute Engine VM
- Add persistent disk to Compute Engine Instance
- Go to Snapshot section
- Click on Create Snapshot
- Name: snapshot-disk-1
- Source disk: disk-1 (we’re creating snapshot of additional disk created in step 2)
- Click on Create
- Delete the Disk 1
- Go to VM instance section & Select the instance
- Click on Edit
- Scroll to Additional disks and delete disk-1
- Click on Save
- Go to Disks section
- Select disk-1
- Click on Action manual and delete the disk
- Create Disk for Snapshot
- Go to Disk section and click on Create Disk
- Name: disk-from-snapshot
- Disk source type: Snapshot
- Source snapshot: snapshot-disk-1
- Size: 10GB
- Click Create
- Attach Disk created for snapshot
- Select the VM instance
- Click on Edit
- Scroll to Additional disks > Attach existing disk
- Disk: select disk-from-snapshot
- Click Done
- Click Save
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