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identify droplets in select menu of take a snapshot page by ip address as well as hostname
I am constrained in my choice of hostname. To identify a droplet when making images, I need more characteristics: ip address seems to make sense, droplet size or location wouldn't be bad, but might not be unique.0
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Droplet Console: "Snapshots" -- please add reminder of how to "poweroff your droplet from the command line"
On the Droplets console under "Snapshots" it says "To take a snapshot please poweroff your droplet from the command line." Since I do this is so infrequently, I forget how. If it's different for different flavors of Linux, then how about a link ...3 Will not implement
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Snapshot queuing system
Instead of shutting down your droplet to create a snapshot, you are able to apply for a snapshot window. Digital Ocean will then give you a time frame where you can quickly shutdown your droplet and an estimate of how long it would take. The sna...2 Will not implement
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Don't modifiy my machine when restoring from snapshot
Recently I had to move a droplet due to Digital Ocean Issues. I snapshotted the machine, destroyed and recreated it from the snapshot. However when the machine was recreated the root password was changed (and sent via email which is far from secur...1
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Make snapshooting/restore as effective as Linode's
Server-level backups should be the same process as creating a snapshot. User should be able to set daily time-frame during which the backups occur. Backups should occur as server snapshots, created while the server is live. They should be stored i...0
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Allow users to cancel actions like snapshots and droplet creation
Creation of cancel button command, to delayed or not response actions in the server.48
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Snapshot tree
Hi, When snapshot count reaches a dozen it becomes quite difficult to figure out which has been created from which. I think to have a tree of snapshots is a good solution, like it's implemented by VMWare and Oracle in their virtualization softwar...1
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Show the image ID on the Images page
I'm probably missing something, but the fastest way to figure out the Image ID (to use on API calls) is to inspect the HTML on the Images page...0 Planned
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Return snapshot ID when creating via API
With your API, when you create a snapshot it does not return a snapshot ID. It returns an action which is fine, but even the action doesn't contain the snapshot ID only the droplet ID. As a result there is no easy way of detecting the ID of the sn...1
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Email alerts option for Snapshots and other long running operations
When running a snapshot it can take a very long time, can you a checkbox at the time of snapshot initiation to email when complete? Also add this to destruction or any other operation that could take a while. I have had destructions take a long ti...0