Attach a Snapshot/Backup to your Server

Onidel enables you to temporarily attach a backup or snapshot (volume) to your server as an individual disk. This allows you to access and recover specific files from the volume without requiring a full restore.

Attaching the volume

There are several places that you can attach a volume:

• In the Snapshots tab and Backups tab in the VM management page.

• In the Orchestration > Snapshots and Orchestration > Backup page.

You will see the Attach button on each volume:

Click on the Attach button, and choose the instance that you want to attach the volume to. You can only attach the volume to the instance that is in the same DC.

Instances with attached volumes cannot be backed up or snapshotted. Please detach the volume once you have finished using it.

Mounting the volume

With Windows

Windows is currently not supported. Mounted volumes will be unusable.

With Linux

Log in to your server using SSH and run the following command to list the block devices:

[root@hot-apricot-wildcat ~]# lsblk

This will display the attached disks. The newly attached disk (usually vdb) should appear in the list:

[root@hot-apricot-wildcat ~]# lsblk
NAME   MAJ:MIN RM  SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINTS
sr0     11:0    1 1024M  0 rom  
sr1     11:1    1    4M  0 rom  
sr2     11:2    1 1024M  0 rom  
vda    252:0    0   60G  0 disk 
├─vda1 252:1    0    1M  0 part 
├─vda2 252:2    0  200M  0 part /boot/efi
├─vda3 252:3    0    1G  0 part /boot
└─vda4 252:4    0 58.8G  0 part /
vdb    252:16   0   60G  1 disk 
├─vdb1 252:17   0    1M  1 part 
├─vdb2 252:18   0  200M  1 part 
├─vdb3 252:19   0    1G  1 part 
└─vdb4 252:20   0 58.8G  1 part

To mount the disk or a specific partition, use the following command:

mount -o ro,norecovery,nouuid /dev/vdb4 /mnt

You can now access or copy the backup files from the /mnt directory.

Detaching the volume

The attached volume is shown in Storage section:

Click Detach and then confirm to detach the volume from the instance.