search for snapshots sorted by creation date

[vmpr]

Hi everyone, I am looking for a way to find snapshots in my pool that are pretty old so I can remove them. finding the "type" snapshot is not complicated but seeing the creation date and sorting them by that is my actual problem, is there a way for that?
cheers Ringo

[Danp]

I haven't seen a way to do this from within XO. However, you can gather the details using xe on the command line --

for i in `xe snapshot-list  | grep uuid | awk '{print$5}'`; do export j=$(xe snapshot-param-get uuid=$i  param-name=children); k=$(xe snapshot-param-get uuid=$i  param-name=snapshot-time); echo "VM UUID: $j - Snapshot UUID: $i - Creation Time: $k"; done

This doesn't sort the results, so you will need to do that in Excel or your favorite text editor.

[olivierlambert]

I think that should be doable with our REST API or at worst our existing API. Pinging @julien-f

[Steve_Sibilia]

@olivierlambert We are interested in that too. Any news?

It would be a wonderful integration to our icinga check for snapshots.

[olivierlambert]

I think it's now possible since last release. Let me ping @julien-f

[Steve_Sibilia]

@olivierlambert Thank you.

[julien-f]

Hello,

Yes, the list of VM snapshots in now exposed by the REST API, the path is /rest/v0/vm-snapshots.

The list of available collections is under the path /rest/v0.

More info in the documentation: https://xen-orchestra.com/docs/restapi.html

[Steve_Sibilia]

@julien-f thank you.
Is it possible to filter by creation date?

[julien-f]

@Steve_Sibilia Yes.

1. Take a look at a specific snapshot to see the available fields, note snapshot_time which is a Unix timestamp.
2. Use a filter (syntax documentation), example:

   /rest/v0/vm-snapshots?filter=snapshot_time%3A>1669044124
   

[vmpr]

@Steve_Sibilia hey, what icinga check are you using for snapshots? do you have any xcp-ng related icinga checks running?

[Steve_Sibilia]

@vmpr Hi, i wrote my own to find any vm with more than X snapshot which has an age of Y days.

If you are interested I can share it, I need a little bit of time to translate comments and help in english.

For xcp-ng i wrote onther check to get the size of hba storage SR's.

[olivierlambert]

Any helper and use case is welcome, feel free to link to your Github or Gitlab repository!

[Steve_Sibilia]

@olivierlambert here it is: https://github.com/Stevesibilia/check_snapshot

Keep in mind i'm not a developer