I’ve done a bit of searching but cant seem to find an answer.
can you have a Droplet with attached block storage and move the block storage to another region from within the DO console?
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Currently, you can’t change the region. You’d need to setup a new block storage device and transfer the files over using scp or your preferred method.
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just create a dummy droplet in the old region
then attach the volume and copy to local ssd
power off dummy droplet
make a droplet snapshot
copy the droplet snapshot to new region with make snapshot available in region-option
delete dummy droplet
create new dummy droplet in new region with snapshot copied
meanwhile create volume in new region
attaach volume to dummy droplet
boot
copy files to new volume
verify files (is all here and ok?)
shutdown
delete dummy droplet, temp snapshot for move, volume in old region
This still doesn’t seem to be fixed.
Is it planned to move volume snapshots in the future?