How can I re-size a droplet without loosing any data?

May 6, 2015 1.4k views
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I’ve two web apps hosted on my server and now I realize that I don’t need the server capacity I’ve at the moment. I want to reduce it without loosing any data.

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Woet May 6, 2015

Use fast resize for CPU+RAM or snapshot and create a new droplet from snapshot for disk as well.

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hunky May 7, 2015

You should give this tutorial a read about steps you need to take to downgrade the droplet..

https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-downgrade-digitalocean-droplets

Thanks..

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