Question
How to decrease storage and restore from snaphsot?
- Posted on November 21, 2014
Asked by insumy
I have droplet with 80GB (60$) space, and I want to change it to 30GB (10$) and save all data (17 GB). But i can’t restore droplet from snapshot. I have an error: “You cannot create a droplet with a smaller disk(30GB) than the image(80GB)” On “Resize” tab there is no choice to decrease plan. What can I do?
This textbox defaults to using Markdown to format your answer.
You can type !ref in this text area to quickly search our full set of tutorials, documentation & marketplace offerings and insert the link!
These answers are provided by our Community. If you find them useful, show some love by clicking the heart. If you run into issues leave a comment, or add your own answer to help others.
Want to learn more? Join the DigitalOcean Community!
Join our DigitalOcean community of over a million developers for free! Get help and share knowledge in Q&A, subscribe to topics of interest, and get courses and tools that will help you grow as a developer and scale your project or business.
Unfortunately downgrading to a smaller disk size is not a very straight forward process. You won’t be able to simply recreate from a snapshot. You’ll have to copy the data off onto a smaller droplet using
rsyncThis tutorial gets into all the details:This comment has been deleted