Though falsely that I would not be impacted by the Covid crisis... had my billing account terminated along with the cloud engine VM attached to it on 08/Jan/2021, the VM get stopped and terminated one month later on February 2021.
I solved the billing issue and reactivated the account on 28/Feb/2021, but never the less the VM was deleted, I solved the billing issue +- 10 days too late to be able to recover the VM in an automated way.
I had a daily snapshot scheduled on that VM... the billing support informed me that the snapshot retention period on Google's back-end is longer, I desperately need your help to recover that snapshot.
Here are the details of the deleted/terminated VM
- Project : my-gcloud-project-space
- Zone : europe-west6-b
- Instance name : intika-cloud-dw
- Instance ID : 39223103792027291
- Concerned VM Disk : projects/my-gcloud-project-space/zones/europe-west6-b/disks/intika-cloud-enc
- Instance link : projects/my-gcloud-project-space/zones/europe-west6-b/instances/intika-cloud-dw
- Zone link : projects/my-gcloud-project-space/zones/europe-west6-b
- Support chat transcript : case #27054228 (billing team, that informed me about the snapshot retention)
The snapshot should have been ran automatically on February as well, from the activity logs here is the time when I created that snapshot + its schedule, but I am not sure 100% if it's the one running daily
- Start time : Mon Apr 20 2020
- Resource name : projects/my-gcloud-project-space/zones/europe-west6-b/disks/intika-cloud-enc
- Name : snapshot-1
- Storage locations : europe-west6
- ID : 3738848292645164093
- Target ID : 6513980452485049482
- Target Link : googleapis.com/compute/v1/projects/my-gcloud-project-space/zones/europe-west6-b/disks/intika-cloud-enc
Otherwise more recently I did a snapshot and delete it while troubleshooting a problem (sorry for the snapshot name)
- Insert time : Tue Nov 24 2020 12:30:28
- Resource name : projects/my-gcloud-project-space/global/snapshots/*ucked-copy-europe-west6-b-20201123210016-co49zkqr
- ID : 2948064231289868347
- Target ID : 5871237080529607695
- Target link : googleapis.com/compute/v1/projects/my-gcloud-project-space/global/snapshots/*ucked-copy-europe-west6-b-20201123210016-co49zkqr
How can I recover the snapshot from Google's back-end? Any recovered data is very valuable to me. Thanks a lot for your help it's really appreciated