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VM Snapshots

Last updated on Feb 13, 2026

Onidel Cloud supports taking, restoring and downloading snapshots of Virtual Machines.

Creating Snapshot of a VM

  1. Navigate to Compute > Virtual Machine > (select your VM) > Storage > Snapshots.

  2. Click on Create Snapshot button, choose a Name and optional Description of the snapshot.

  3. Creating a snapshot usually takes a few minutes depending on the size of the drive. You should see Snapshot In Progress status on the VM.

    During all this time your VM will stay online but you can't perform any actions on it.

  4. After this is finished, you should see the snapshot in the list under Storage > Snapshots.

    From there, you can Restore, Download or Delete the snapshot.

Restoring from a Snapshot

  1. Navigate to Compute > Virtual Machine > (VM to restore snapshot on) > Storage > Snapshots.

  2. Then, click the Restore button of a selected snapshot.

  3. Next you will be asked to confirm whether it's okay for a snapshot to be restored there. Keep in mind, restoring a snapshot will overwrite all existing data of the target VM.

  4. After confirming, the VM will start being restored.

  5. The process should take a few minutes and after this, the VM will boot from disk restored from snapshot.

Deploying new VM from a Snapshot

You can also use it as base image when creating a new Virtual Machine. Just go to Compute > Virtual Machine > Deploy New Server, then in the Software part, select your snapshot from the Snapshot tab.

In most cases, the new VM will get a different IP address and hostname (as set during deployment). Those are automatically managed by cloud-init on all major Linux distributions. All other configuration and data will be recreated from the snapshot.

FAQ

Price

2 snapshots per account are free.

If you need more, please contact us via ticket.

Location

Snapshots are tied to a specific location, so a snapshot of a VM in one location can only be restored within the same location, either on the same or different Virtual Machine.

Target drive size

Snapshots can only be restored to a target with equal or larger drive. Restoring snapshot to a Virtual Machine with a smaller disk is not supported.

Retention

Snapshots are not removed when destroying a VM they were taken from. If you no longer need a snapshot, you need to delete it separately.