Listing Digital ocean droplet snapshots along with date of creation

Question

I am in need of situation where i need to list out the available droplet snapshot of specific droplet. I am using doctl to list the snapshots. I need a way that the doctl command needs to list out the available snapshots along with date of creation. Alternate solutions is also appreciated. I am not sure is this possible. It would be great help if some one render their hands to make it clear.

Thanks, Muneesh

DazWilkin · Accepted Answer · 2021-07-15T20:40:12.870

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Your question is unclear.

Do you wish to filter the list of snapshots by a given Droplet (ID)?

If so, I suspect you'll want to consider using doctl --output=json to get the doctl command's output as JSON and then use a tool like jq to filter the result.

I created a Droplet and a snapshot and this works:

# jq filter
FILTER=".[]|select(.resource_id==\"${DROPLET}\")"

# For all my Droplets
DROPLETS=$(doctl compute droplet list --format=ID --no-header)

for DROPLET in ${DROPLETS}
do
  doctl compute snapshot list \
  --resource=droplet \
  --output=json \
  | jq "${FILTER}"
done

And, if you want to limit the output to just name and created_at:

FILTER=".[]|select(.resource_id==\"${DROPLET}\")|{\"name\":.name,\"created\":.created_at}"

edited Jul 15 '21 at 20:40

answered Jul 15 '21 at 15:27

DazWilkin

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Hi @DazWikin apreciated your efforts..let me give the scenerio...consider a droplet and it is having 3 snapshots. what i want is i need to list all the three snapshots along with time of creation using doctl in command line thats it – Muneesh DuRaipandi Jul 15 '21 at 20:06
By the way i am getting this error jq: error (at :4729): Cannot index array with string "snapshot" when executing the above command – Muneesh DuRaipandi Jul 15 '21 at 20:08
It should be `snapshots` not `snapshot` – DazWilkin Jul 15 '21 at 20:26
Apologies... I just created a snapshot... There's no `snapshots` in the JSON output, I'll update the answer. – DazWilkin Jul 15 '21 at 20:32
doctl compute snapshot list \ --resource=droplet \ --output=json \ | jq ".[]|select(.resource_id==\"${222153257}\")" – Muneesh DuRaipandi Jul 15 '21 at 20:38
is that rite format ..could you please suggest? – Muneesh DuRaipandi Jul 15 '21 at 20:39
Please see my answer – DazWilkin Jul 15 '21 at 20:40
`doctl compute snapshot list --resource=droplet --output=json | jq ".[]|select(.resource_id==\"222153257\")"` – DazWilkin Jul 15 '21 at 20:41
quick question...the commented answer needs to be run as shell script rite? if yes the loop keeps executing and not ends – Muneesh DuRaipandi Jul 15 '21 at 23:22
I added the `for` to show a simple way to obtain Droplet IDs. You need not use that. You just need to provide `doctl compute snapshot list` with a Droplet ID to filter. – DazWilkin Jul 15 '21 at 23:50

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Jul 19 '22 at 18:13

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The command exists:

doctl compute snapshot list

Here is the official documentation.

answered Jul 19 '22 at 18:13

Iacchus

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