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create droplet from snapshot by REST api

Posted on December 30, 2014

Can’t found in the documentation, but that is not working , also tried to put “snapshot_id” in the “image” no good.

{"name":"peer1.ethergit.com","region":"ams2","size":"512mb","ssh_keys":null,"backups":false,"ipv6":true,"user_data":"Peer1","private_networking":null,
  "image":"ubuntu-14-04-x64" , "snapshot_ids": ["java-8-snapshot"]}


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yeah I passed the authentication stage the JSON I pasted is the command

nop, the droplet was created, it just was an empty droplet not a snapshot image.

Can you share the API call you actually made and the error message that was returned? It would help us figure out what’s going on here.

To launch a new droplet based on a snapshot, you need to supply it’s ID for the image parameter:

curl -X POST -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
    -H 'Authorization: Bearer $TOKEN' -d \
    '{"name":"example.com","region":"nyc3","size":"512mb","image": 12345}' \
    "https://api.digitalocean.com/v2/droplets" 

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