support for volume snapshot creation, deletion and restore

[parthnavale]

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[parthnavale]

In General other cloud, CSI drivers have the support for the creation, deletion, and restore of the snapshot. Can it be added to LKE as well

[shinebayar-g]

Without this implemented, is there any way to backup PVC volumes on LKE?

[mzimry]

hey, when is this feature planned to be released?

[acrogenesis]

Interesting I was trying to setup volume snapshots and didn't get it to work.

[nesv]

Hi everyone! Sorry for this ticket having sat here so long, unaddressed.

Unfortunately, the CSI driver is limited by what is exposed through the Linode API, which currently does not support snapshots for block storage volumes. Linode has "instance volumes" which are the hypervisor-local disks attached to a Linode instance, and those support snapshots, but there is currently no way to snapshot a block storage volume.

If you would like this feature to be added, the best course of action would be to submit a feature request to the Linode Community Q&A.