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Cloud Block Storage

User Guide

Last updated: 2023-12-20 16:39:22

1. Basic of CBS

2. CBS Billing Modes

Tencent Cloud CBS supports the monthly subscription and pay-as-you-go billing modes. You need to understand the two billing modes to select an optimal billing solution. For more information, see Billing Overview.

3. Snapshots

Snapshots are convenient and efficient data protection methods. We recommend that you create snapshots for cloud disks before major business changes. If a business change fails, snapshots can be used to quickly restore the data. For more information, see Snapshot Overview.

4. Getting Started

4.1 Registration and authentication

Before using Tencent Cloud CBS, sign up for a Tencent Cloud account and complete identity verification.

4.2 Creating cloud disks

After registration and identity verification, you can select a cloud disk type, capacity, billing mode, retention period, automatic renewal, and expiration or in arrears protection based on the requirements of the availability zone where your CVM is located to create cloud disks. For more information, see Creating Cloud Disks.

4.3 Using cloud disks

After you create cloud disks, you need to mount separately purchased cloud disks to CVMs in the same availability zone and initialize the cloud disks. For more information, see the following documents:

4.4 Creating snapshots (optional)

After you create cloud disks, you can use snapshots to manually or periodically back up important business data to prevent data loss or damage caused by maloperations, attacks, viruses, or others. For more information, see Creating Snapshots and Scheduled Snapshot.

5. Console



6. Overview of Console Features

Features
Reference
Create cloud disks using different methods
Mount a cloud disk to a CVM in the same availability zone and set automatic cloud disk mounting
Initialize cloud disks based on actual requirements
Expand cloud disks to add storage space
Unmount cloud disks and mount them to other CVMs
Terminate or return a cloud disk
Create the snapshot of a cloud disk at a specific time point to save the cloud disk data at that time
Use a scheduled snapshot policy to flexibly back up data
Delete unnecessary snapshots
Rollback a cloud disk by using a snapshot, so as to restore the data at the snapshot creation time

7. FAQs

Usage of CBS

Snapshot FAQs

8. Feedback and Suggestion

If you have any doubts or suggestions when using Tencent Cloud CBS products and services, you can submit your feedback through the following channels. Dedicated personnel will contact you to solve your problems.
If you have any questions regarding the product documentation, such as links, content, or APIs, click Send Feedback on the right of the document page.
If you encounter any problems when using the product, contact online support for assistance.
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