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Cannot resize from snapshot

Posted January 1, 2014 2.8k views
Hi, I am trying to upgrade my server to 40gig storage. I took a snapshot as defined here: https://www.digitalocean.com/community/articles/how-to-resize-droplets-using-snapshots And created a new droplet. But when I try to restore from the snapshot of my 1st droplet, I cannot access the backup image. What I get is: Currently you do not have any snapshots for this droplet to restore from. How do I cross-access the snapshots?
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l.erlacher+do January 1, 2014
Are you trying to bring up the new droplet in a different DC? Then you need to mark the snapshot as globally accessible, should be somewhere in the "Images" page.
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cemrepacun January 1, 2014
I guess it's the globe icon which says distribute to all regions. I clicked that. Now it says Initiated an image region transfer for the image. I guess it will be ok soon. Thank you
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cemrepacun January 1, 2014
is it possible for DigitalOcean staff to resize the droplet if I accept the downtime? instead of this snapshot transfer method... I have a 15gig site which may take too long to distribute to global network. Btw, both my droplets are in AMS2 datacenter, would it make this faster?
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kamaln7 January 4, 2014
Unfortunately we cannot resize the droplet for you. You can take a snapshot and keep the droplet running while you migrate the snapshot and deploy the droplet in a different datacenter.
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