To save money, it’d be advantageous to shut down droplets when I don’t use them. However, a 8Gb droplet takes a while to snapshot. I may well have made some changes that I’d like to keep, the alternative is to have some routine for backing up my data.
Is there some way to do this automatically? Just start the snapshotting process, and have the droplet destroyed when the snapshot is created?
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Hi there,
Yes, this is doable with the DigitalOcean
doctl
command-line tool:https://docs.digitalocean.com/reference/doctl/reference/compute/droplet-action/shutdown/
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You can put that in a script and run it whenever you need to.
Alternatively, you could do the same but using the DigitalOcean API:
https://docs.digitalocean.com/reference/api/api-reference/#operation/destroy_with_associated_resources_dangerous
Hope that this helps!
Best,
Bobby