Skip to main content

Your submission was sent successfully! Close

Thank you for signing up for our newsletter!
In these regular emails you will find the latest updates from Canonical and upcoming events where you can meet our team.Close

Thank you for contacting us. A member of our team will be in touch shortly. Close

`multipass restore` command

See also: snapshot, list, info, delete

The multipass restore command restores an instance to the state that it was in when the given snapshot was taken.

For example, when you run the command:

multipass restore relative-lion.snapshot2

the system will ask you if you want to save a snapshot of your instance before proceeding:

Do you want to take a snapshot of relative-lion before discarding its current state? (Yes/no):

If you confirm, the output will be similar to the following:

Snapshot taken: relative-lion.snapshot3
Snapshot restored: relative-lion.snapshot2

As shown in the example, with no further options, the command will offer to take another snapshot. This automatic snapshot saves the instance’s current state before it is thrown away. It will be named following the multipass snapshot default naming convention, and it will have an automatic comment to indicate its purpose.

In our example, if you run:

multipass info relative-lion.snapshot3 | grep Comment

you’ll find the comment:

Comment:        Before restoring snapshot1

You can use the --destructive (or -d) option to skip the question and discard the current state. If the command is run non-interactively (i.e. with either standard input or standard output being redirected), this flag is required, since there is no way to query the user for confirmation.

The full multipass help restore output explains the available options:

Usage: multipass restore [options] <instance>.<snapshot>
Restore an instance to the state of a previously taken snapshot.

Options:
  -h, --help         Displays help on commandline options
  -v, --verbose      Increase logging verbosity. Repeat the 'v' in the short
                     option for more detail. Maximum verbosity is obtained with
                     4 (or more) v's, i.e. -vvvv.
  -d, --destructive  Discard the current state of the instance

Arguments:
  instance.snapshot  The instance to restore and snapshot to use, in
                     <instance>.<snapshot> format, where <instance> is the name
                     of an instance, and <snapshot> is the name of a snapshot

Errors or typos? Topics missing? Hard to read? Let us know or open an issue on GitHub.

Previous restart Next set

Last updated 3 months ago. Help improve this document in the forum.