recover vm deleted by accident

[Yamil Amarillo]

good to everyone, ask someone knows if you can recover a virtual machine that was deleted by accident ???

Cheers

[Manpreet Sidhu (Google Cloud Support)]

Hi!

This is an irreversible process. There’s no way to restore a VM or PD without a Snapshot. Snapshot creation is customer's responsibility and is easily configurable for automated snapshot creation for VMs. [3]

As per our public documentation “Deleting a disk removes its data permanently and is irreversible. However, deleting a disk does not delete any snapshots previously made from the disk. You must separately delete snapshots.” [1]

And public documentation for Persistent disk encryption “When you delete a persistent disk, Google discards the cipher keys, rendering the data irretrievable. This process is irreversible.” [2]

It is recommended that any data that you would consider to be important should have regular snapshots scheduled. This document will help you to implement automated snapshots for your VMs[3][4]. It is also recommended that you configure your instances so that they are not accidentally deleted in the future[5].

This document contains details on how you can design a more robust system[6].

[1]: https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/reference/rest/v1/disks/delete

[2]: https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/disks/#pd_encryption

[3]: https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/disks/scheduled-snapshots

[4]: https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/disks/snapshot-best-practices

[5]: https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/instances/preventing-accidental-vm-deletion

[6]: https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/tutorials/robustsystems