In this recipe, we'll create a VM with a boot disk and an additional disk. We'll use a script to take a backup of the disks attached to the machine. Then, we'll simulate a total instance failure and try to manually bring back the instance from the backup snapshots:
- Let's create a Debian Linux instance with an additional disk and make sure that the Compute Engine API has read/write access. The additional disk is created first:
- The following screenshot shows the created instance:
- The following screenshot shows the attached ...
