How much space does a snapshot take?

Posted July 17, 2014

a df -h before and after the removal of a snapshot shows no change? 32 bit Ubuntu mean-stack.

Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/vda1 20G 3.1G 16G 17% / none 4.0K 0 4.0K 0% /sys/fs/cgroup udev 235M 4.0K 235M 1% /dev tmpfs 50M 316K 49M 1% /run none 5.0M 0 5.0M 0% /run/lock none 246M 0 246M 0% /run/shm none 100M 0 100M 0% /run/user

Are shapshots stored outside my disk space?

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Kamal Nasser • July 18, 2014

Snapshots are stored on their own NAS servers and are backed up to Amazon Glacier. They do not take up your droplet’s disk space.

Larry Fransson • July 18, 2014

Snapshots are not stored on any of your droplets.

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