Deleting and recovering storage

When you delete a storage item, it is moved to trash for 96 hours. You can restore it during this window.

Restoring incurs Pay As You Go charges for the time it spent deleted. The cost is deducted from your project balance.

Recovering deleted storage

You can recover both Block Volumes and Shared Filesystems (SFS) from trash during the 96-hour window.

1

Open Deleted volumes

In the console, go to your storage types: Block volumes or Shared filesystems.

2

Restore the item

Expand the Deleted storage. Then click Restore from the actions menu of the volume you want to recover.

3

Reconnect it to your compute

Restoring brings the volume item back. It does not automatically reattach or remount it.

• Block volume: attach it to an instance and mount it in the OS. See Attaching a block volume.

• Shared filesystem (SFS): share it to your instances, then mount it via NFS. See Editing share settings and Mounting a shared filesystem.

After restoring an SFS, re-check the Pseudopath in the filesystem details before mounting. It may change. Update your mount command and any /etc/fstab entries accordingly.

Permanently deleting storage

To free up storage quota, you must permanently delete the storage. In the console, go to Deleted volumes and click Permanently delete from the actions menu. Please note that this action cannot be undone.

You can also permanently delete a volume via API by passing is_permanent=true .