Hi,
I just got a mail that Snapshots is going to be paid. I've got multiple snapshots spread accross 2 accounts (one for each company) and I want to batch remove some old ones, otherwise this is going to be pretty expensive over here :) I was wondering if that's possible? Thanks!
Our command line client, doctl would make deleting multiple snapshots from your account quite simple. To list all of your images, use:
- doctl compute image list-user
This allows you to retrieve their image IDs. Using the IDs, you could write a small script to delete in bulk:
#!/bin/bash
for i in 123456 789012; do
doctl compute image delete "$i"
done
If you wanted to delete all the snapshots on your account, you could do something like:
#!/bin/bash
doctl compute image list-user -o json | jq -c '.[] | select(.type == "snapshot") | .id' | while read i; do
doctl compute image delete "$i"
done
Of course, our API also supports deleting images. There are libraries in a number of different languages as well.
I got ./delete_do_snapshots.sh: line 3: jq: command not found. Any ideas?
Edit: installed jq using brew install jq and it worked.
For people that don't use the API this is a big problem. I think DO should make this feature available from their control panel or at least be able to do this when a Support Ticket is raised.
Unfortunately I raised a ticket and was told that DO will not do this on my behalf and I would need to delete each one manually. That's going to take quite a bit of time.
There is a feature request here but I doubt it'll be available in time for the start of the Snapshot billing:
https://digitalocean.uservoice.com/forums/136585-digitalocean/suggestions/15681810-bulk-delete-snapshots
Cheers
Nick