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How long does snapshot takes to create ?

Posted September 15, 2014 33.9k views

It seems its taking well over 45 mins, still the snapshot is getting created.. Its bit too longer for a production environment to stay offline..

How long does it take to create a snapshot ??

1GB droplet having around 12% of used disc ??

Server is offline for well over 45 mins as the snapshot keeps showing processing !!!

I dont even see any option to cancel the process and start the server :( any one knows how to stop the snapshot creation process so that the server can be taken back online ??

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  • payu January 22, 2017
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    It’s 2017, bro!
    Can digital ocean show any progress?

  • tlowrey January 31, 2018
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    2018 checking in. snapshots are still unbearably slow, and yep, the notification just stays at 50% the whole time. i’ve waited over an hour for a 6GB snapshot. that’s considerably slower than usb2. what the hell??? if someone can theoretically take 18 year old technology and transfer data faster, then what the hell are we paying for? this is absurd, to the max.

  • danton01 February 6, 2020
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    February 2020, NYC3, 16.48 GB about 20 minutes.
    Longer than I expected, but also more data than I had before.
    My last snapshot was 10GB. Not sure how long it took, just seemed faster.

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info101261 October 9, 2014

FYI - 20GB in AMS1 took 9mins

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TenHourGuy October 7, 2015

Before taking snapshots, I’d recommend getting rid of as much rubbish as possible, just due to how ridiculous the waiting times can be. Not only is your server down, money is being taken out of your pocket too. But yeah, fairly normal for it to sometimes take ages, particularly at peak times.

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Zonax7100 January 2, 2016

Same in 2016… It’s still really slow…

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tomw August 25, 2016

I started looking for this answer after I started taking a snapshot which is a shame. 100g android build environment SGP1. 45 min so far. Cancel would be a really useful option.

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tkstanczak April 16, 2019

This is worrying, I started a snapshot of a 2.5TB drive. I guess I should come back here in a week…

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larry September 15, 2014

It sounds like something is stuck. The control panel may be out of sync as well. If you have logged out of the control panel and logged in with no change, it is time to submit a support ticket.

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  • hunky September 15, 2014

    I too thought that and created a support ticket, but few mins later I found the job done notification and it seems Nothing was stuck..

    System just took 55 mins to create a snapshot of 3.6GB of data !!!

    DO guys seriously needs to look into it as its far to longer to sustain the down time :( for production servers !!

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  • yoosefi September 15, 2014

    This is good to know, I have a snapshot of about 9GB going and I was getting worried since the progress bar never moves. I even opened a ticket. I’ll just let it run its course I guess.

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  • hunky September 15, 2014

    For test setup, time wont be a factor but when taking snapshot of production servers, these time frames are huge !!

    If 3.6 GB takes 1 hr, then larger droplets will take a lot of time, and 2/3 hrs of down time for a production website is quite a lot :(

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  • larry September 15, 2014

    They don’t usually take that long. My snapshots (filling about 23% of a 512 MB droplet’s disk space - whatever that amounts to) take at most a few minutes to complete.

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vitaly May 14, 2015

Same thing. It’s down for 15 minutes already and still spinning.
They should have an option to cancel the process.
It’s not the first time this happens to me.

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Framerate August 29, 2015

21G in LON1 took 50 minutes!

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indigo7333 December 29, 2015

Same in 2015, didn’t know the snapshot is going to take so much time.

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shanjie February 13, 2016

30GB, 40mins

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