# Google Cloud Platform

[Free tier](https://cloud.google.com/free)

[Snapshot - Backup & Restore](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LNxsB3_FVFY)

[Google Cloud Information](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jpno8FSqpc8)

## Create a new VM from a snapshot

Google doesn't provide a way to restore a snapshot to the boot drive. So you have to create a new VM from the snapshot instead.

List the disks:

    gcloud compute disks list

List the snapshots:

    gcloud compute snapshots list

Describe a snapshot:

    gcloud compute snapshots describe snapshot-1

### Create the new VM

|New VM name|Snapshot  |Disk size|Disk type  |New disk name|
|-----------|----------|---------|-----------|-------------|
|instance-2 |snapshot-1|10GB     |pd-balanced|restored-1   |

    gcloud compute instances create instance-2 --source-snapshot=snapshot-1 --boot-disk-size=10 --boot-disk-type=pd-balanced --boot-disk-device-name=restored-2

[Disk types](https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/disks#disk-types)