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Allow creation of a snapshot when a droplet is destroyed

For safety (e.g. against accidental destroy) it would be great to have a snapshot created automatically when a droplet is destroyed.

If you don't want to do this automatically at least show a **checkbox** that allows to optionally do this when you are destroying the droplet.

Marco Colli
Sep 11 2018
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KM commented

September 11, 2018 16:20

For billing oversight, droplets can get destroyed - wasting sometimes, thousands of dollars of work for the procrastinators among us. Since DO saves snapshots anyway, even though it deletes droplets and their backups, using some GB to preserve a snapshot of each DO-destroyed droplet would be invaluable.

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Ben commented

September 11, 2018 16:20

Duplicate of https://digitalocean.uservoice.com/forums/136585-digitalocean/suggestions/5613721-freeze-thaw-one-click-snapshot-and-destroy-one

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Ben commented

September 11, 2018 16:20

It would also be nice if we could have something like a "Trash" and "Recovery" option automatically, where we can allow these snapshots to be destroyed after a certain period of time... I'd be happy to pay extra for these snapshots.

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Freeze & Thaw: One click snapshot and destroy. One click snapshot restore. Merged

I use DO in place of VMs, but it's overly cumbersome to power down a droplet, re-enter the name & create a snapshot, then destroy the droplet and, when restoring from a snapshot, re-entering the name and selecting all the same settings to recr...

Created 11 Sep 17:38 by Burke

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