Fresh install and keep droplet snapshot on Old Ubunt 14

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!

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?