Restore EBS volumes from VSS-enabled EBS snapshots - Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud

Restore EBS volumes from VSS-enabled EBS snapshots

You can use the RestoreVssSnapshotSampleScript.ps1 script to restore volumes on an instance from VSS-enabled EBS snapshots. This script performs the following tasks:

  • Stops an instance

  • Removes all existing drives from the instance (except the boot volume, if it was excluded)

  • Creates new volumes from the snapshots

  • Attaches the volumes to the instance by using the device ID tag on the snapshot

  • Restarts the instance

Important

The following script detaches all volumes attached to an instance, and then creates new volumes from a snapshot. Make sure that you have properly backed-up the instance. The old volumes are not deleted. If you want, you can edit the script to delete the old volumes.

To restore volumes from VSS-enabled EBS snapshots

  1. Download the RestoreVssSnapshotSampleScript.zip file and extract the file contents.

  2. Open RestoreVssSnapshotSampleScript.ps1 in a text editor and edit the sample call at the bottom of the script with a valid EC2 instance ID and EBS snapshot ID, and then run the script from PowerShell.