-
Backups and Snapshots for Custom Images
Can't understand why this is so low on the roadmap. Let's get this feature to the top of the list? It should be enabled by default.0
-
Field for Snapshot Notes
When creating a snapshot all users to write notes with the snapshot. say 4000+ characters so that we can write down ./configure options on the server for that snapshot so when I recompile PHP i can see what was and wasn't enabled on the last/curre...7
-
Download snapshot and/or backup
It would be great if we could download a snapshot. I would use snapshot to replicate development environment on my local computer, I believe many others will do the same. Thanks313 Planned
-
Inform the user of the costs of making backups/snapshots before creation
I made a snapshot of my vps and it was one click and started, I assumed it was free. I read in to a little more and there is a small charge, and I'm not complaining the price is more than reasonable for what it is. It's just more the fact that...1
-
Provide a way to know the source for Backups/Snapshots
When a backup is executed, if I changed the name of droplet, after several backups/snapshots I cannot know where that snapshot/backup was taken from. Probably agood way to solve this is to add a new field to images called droplet_id (via API), in ...1
-
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
-
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 ...2
-
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
-
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
-
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