Aliyun how to set up an automatic snapshot policy for a disk

　　Aliyun how to set up an automatic snapshot policy for a disk

You can set up an automatic snapshot policy for the disk, depending on your business needs.

The name format for automatic snapshots is: auto_yyyymmdd_1, such as Auto_20140418_1

Description

When you create snapshots, there is a certain fluctuation in your disk reading and writing, and it is highly recommended that, depending on your business load, you should choose to perform automatic snapshots at a lower business load to reduce the impact on your business.

A normal cloud disk in use does not perform an automatic snapshot policy.

There is no conflict between the snapshot you created manually and the automatic snapshot. However, when you are performing an automatic snapshot of a disk, you will need to wait for the automatic snapshot to complete before you can manually create the snapshot.

You can specify the automatic snapshot policy that is performed through either a disk entry or a snapshot entry.

Disk entry: Perform an automatic snapshot policy on only one disk, operating from disk entry.

Snapshot Portal: To perform an automatic snapshot policy on multiple or all disks, from an automatic snapshot entry.

Disk entry

This method is useful for assigning an automatic snapshot policy to a disk.

The operation is as follows:

Log on to the Cloud Server Management Console.

Click the disk in the left navigation.

Select a region.

Locate the disk where you want to perform the policy, and then click the Set automatic snapshot policy on the right.

You can start the automatic snapshot feature and select the snapshot policy that you want to use.

Click OK.

Snapshot entry

This method is useful for specifying an automatic snapshot policy for multiple disks at the same time.

Log on to the Cloud Server Management Console.

Click the snapshot > Auto snapshot policy in the left navigation.

Select a region. You can see a list of all the automatic snapshot policies in the domain.

Locate the automatic snapshot policy that you want to perform, and click the setting disk on the right side of it.

Click Not to set Policy Disk tab, locate the disk to which you want to execute the policy, click the Execute snapshot policy to the right of it, or select multiple disks and click the Execute snapshot policy below.

If you want to cancel the snapshot policy, click the Set Policy Disk tab, locate the disk to which you want to execute the policy, click the Cancel snapshot policy on its right, or select multiple disks and click the Cancel snapshot policy below.