Question
Fresh install and keep droplet snapshot on Old Ubunt 14
- Posted on July 23, 2019
- LAMP StackUbuntu
Asked by Defacta
Hello,
I have a droplet with an old version of Ubuntu: Ubuntu 14.04.6 LTS as web server LAMP.
I tried a do-release-upgrade but it didn’t work so I had to restore a snaphost.
I would like to make a fresh install of Ubuntu 18 LTS but keep my snapshot in case I can’t reinstall it or I have troubles to restore mysql databases.
How to make a fresh install of the last LTS Ubuntu and keep my snapshot ?
Thanks, Vincent.
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Hello,
Thank you for your answer.
There is a phrase I don’t understand in the Destroy Tab / Rebuild droplet:
If you select an image with a different operating system than this Droplet, you can break your configuration. Proceed with caution.
I want to make a clean install and I don’t want to keep any of my configuration files. So why this warning message?
First I have to destroy the droplet for a clean install?
Hi,
Hopefully you’ve worked out how to do this but just in case, snapshots are images you can create or restore droplets from - if you’ve created a snapshot, you should be able to later create a new droplet from that snapshot if necessary.
Here are a couple of DO guides on using snapshots:
https://www.digitalocean.com/docs/images/snapshots/how-to/snapshot-droplets/
https://www.digitalocean.com/docs/images/snapshots/how-to/create-restore-droplets/
There are some other related articles in the same section, eg, how to transfer snapshots to different regions or migrating a droplet, eg, https://www.digitalocean.com/docs/images/snapshots/how-to/migrate-droplets/.
Hope this helps - let us know how it goes!