We are ending the life of a web application and taking it offline.
What is the best approach to take a backup of this droplet if it would still be needed to taken online at a later time? But not having to pay for a droplet that is not used.
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This is one of the exact intended use cases of Snapshots!
Read here: How to Create Snapshots of Droplets
What you’ll want to do is:
Two important caveats:
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