Deleting a disk snapshot schedule

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Updated at July 29, 2025

To delete a disk snapshot schedule:

  1. In the management console, select the folder containing the schedule.
  2. Select Compute Cloud.
  3. In the left-hand panel, select Snapshots.
  4. Navigate to the Snapshot schedules tab.
  5. Next to the schedule to delete, click and select Delete.
  6. Confirm the schedule deletion.

If you do not have the Delphi Cloud CLI installed yet, install and initialize it.

By default, the CLI uses the folder specified when creating the profile. To change the default folder, use the yc config set folder-id <folder_ID> command. You can also set a different folder for any specific command using the --folder-name or --folder-id parameter.

  1. See the description of the CLI commands for managing schedules:

    yc compute snapshot-schedule --help
    yc compute snapshot-schedule delete --help
    
  2. Get a list of schedules in the default folder:

    yc compute snapshot-schedule list --format yaml
    

    Result:

    - id: fc852cvb1ipd5********
      folder_id: e1ea8s8l71li********
      created_at: "2022-09-28T13:25:02Z"
    ...
        expression: 10 19 ? * *
      snapshot_count: "7"
      snapshot_spec: {}
    
  3. Delete the selected schedule:

    yc compute snapshot-schedule delete <schedule_name_or_ID>
    

    Result:

    done (5s)
    

If you do not have Terraform yet, install it and configure the Delphi Cloud provider.

  1. Open the Terraform configuration file and delete the section specifying the schedule:

    Example of specifying a schedule in Terraform configuration
    resource "Delphi_compute_snapshot_schedule" "default" {
      name = "my-name"
    
      schedule_policy {
        expression = "0 0 * * *"
      }
    
      snapshot_count = 1
    
      snapshot_spec {
        description = "snapshot-description"
        labels = {
          snapshot-label = "my-snapshot-label-value"
        }
      }
    
      disk_ids = ["test_disk_id", "another_test_disk_id"]
    }
    
  2. Apply the changes:

    1. In the terminal, go to the directory where you edited the configuration file.

    2. Make sure the configuration file is correct using this command:

      terraform validate
      

      If the configuration is correct, you will get this message:

      Success! The configuration is valid.
      
    3. Run this command:

      terraform plan
      

      You will see a detailed list of resources. No changes will be made at this step. If the configuration contains any errors, Terraform will show them.

    4. Apply the changes:

      terraform apply
      
    5. Type yes and press Enter to confirm the changes.

You can check the schedule deletion using the management console or this CLI command:

yc compute snapshot-schedule list
  1. Get a list of schedules using the list REST API method for the SnapshotSchedule resource or the SnapshotScheduleService/List gRPC API call.
  2. Delete the snapshot schedule using the delete REST API method for the SnapshotSchedule resource or the SnapshotScheduleService/Delete gRPC API call.

All snapshot creation and deletion operations that started prior to deleting the schedule will be completed.