Hi,

we were planning on updating php and wanted to create a snapshot of the droplet first as a backup.
We powered off the droploet via ssh, created the snapshot, turned it back on (via DO account) and we now can’t access the server anymore (http, ftp, ssh).
Everything gives a “timeout error”.

We contacted DO support and they said:
“This issue is related to the grub configuration being invalid on the Droplet when being picked up by the grub loader kernel the Droplet is currently set to.”.

They then suggested the following:
“The best solution where feasible is to re-deploy with a modern image and update any snapshots based on these. (…) if this still fails to boot, we will need to use the recovery environment to verify the situation on the Disk and see if we can work from there.”

This is pretty much all gibberish to us as our only plan for today was to create a backup and update php, but we’re now in a situation where we’re dealing with >4hrs of downtime and have a growing number of frustrated paying subscribers not being able to access our websites.

So our questions is - what exactly do we do to resolve this?
Any help is appreciated!
Thanks in advance.

Best,
Andrej