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Rook is a storage orchestration tool that provides a cloud-native, open source solution for a diverse set of storage providers. Ceph is a highly scalable distributed-storage solution offering object, block, and file s...
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Gabriel Tanner
Kubernetes
Block Storage
DigitalOcean Volumes
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I Would like to increase my /Var which contains my Web site data and Database data already in it. is that possible to increase my /var with a Block Storage Volume WITHOUT LOOSING THE DATA ALREADY IN IT. if so . Kindly...
Accepted Answer:
Hey Sandy!
This is a bit complicated task! However, it is not impossible to accomplish it. I have managed to mount a block-storage volume to /var/ directory of my Droplet without apparent issues. However, with that be...
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KILAAdmin
DigitalOcean Volumes
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Question
When creating a Digitalocean Volume, it is required to specify a droplet to attache the volume to. Is it possible to instead create a standalone Volume, and attach it to a droplet at a later stage?
Accepted Answer:
Hi,
You can create detached volume with DO API. I tested it using both curl and Ruby. Let's focus on curl because it is usually installed by default on most of Linux distros.
Prerequisites
1. You must have curl instal...
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vortexmind
DigitalOcean Volumes
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I have a website whose main purpose is static content, but part of it is LARGE video files, can I mount a volume and somehow host the videos from that volume?
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While you can certainly setup your own webserver and serve media files from a Block Volume backed Droplet, I would not recommend that if you plan on making these video files public. If a video goes viral you're going ...
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leandroprada
DigitalOcean Volumes
Block Storage
Nginx
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Can I add a volume snapshot to another region or transfer it to another region? I know I can do it with droplet snapshots, but what about volume snapshots? And if it's not possible, can you add this feature?
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Hey @urirodberg,
I just tested this and it does not seem to be possible as of the time being. A workaround that I would use in this case is to use a command like rsync for example, to transfer all of my files from an ...
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urirodberg
DigitalOcean Volumes
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Hi,
Mount a volume for /home2/ in WHM/cPanel
I created a volume (https://cloud.digitalocean.com/volumes) and it provides me some details like you can see below:
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Create a mount point for your volume:
$ mkdir -p /mn...
Accepted Answer:
Hello, ryanClam
Login to WHM –> Basic WebHost Manager® Setup –> set /home2 directory instead of /home
By default all directories matching the "Home Directory Prefix" are checked for available disk space and the direc...
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ryanClam
DigitalOcean Volumes
CentOS
Networking
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Hi everyone,
I am planning a project to go online in a few weeks/months.
What the setup is going to look like:
-Droplet with openlitespeed WordPress (25GB for installation folders)
-Managed Mysql database
-Managed Red...
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Hi there @Dylan192345,
Indeed this sounds like a solid setup.
To check if the folder is mounted correctly, you can use the df command:
df -h
This will show you your available disks and the mount path.
To check if fo...
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Dylan192345
WordPress
DigitalOcean Volumes
Deployment
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I have a production web server and all critical data for it is on a separate volume, which I am looking to expand soon. It's showing me that I have the option to expand it without any warnings, but I just want to make...
Accepted Answer:
Hello, @lwschris
If you need more storage space than your current volume provides, you can attach additional volumes to the same Droplet (https://www.digitalocean.com/docs/volumes/how-to/create/) or expand the size o...
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lwschris
DigitalOcean Volumes
CentOS
Storage
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I build interesting applications using best practices in infra architecture and would love to be able to write/blog about them. However, I lack the tools to be able to create good architecture diagrams for all the di...
Accepted Answer:
A great resource for creating architecture diagrams for infrastructure configurations based on DigitalOcean can be found here: https://do.co/diagram-kit
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rsharma
DigitalOcean Managed Kubernetes
DigitalOcean Managed Load Balancers
DigitalOcean Managed PostgreSQL Database
DigitalOcean Managed MySQL Database
DigitalOcean Spaces
DigitalOcean Volumes
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I purchased domain from Godaddy, hosting package for the domain from Hostgator. All subdomians are running on DO. Now I need to update my DNS record in Hostgator. I need to know the steps to be followed to update the ...
Accepted Answer:
Hello, @swathiraomce
You need to update the DNS records from where your active DNS zone. If you're using Hostgator's nameservers for your domain name, then you'll need to make the DNS change from their control panel....
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swathiraomce
DigitalOcean Volumes
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I'm new here and these are some questions I have. Does the x TB transfer assigned to a droplet reset each month after payment? And also, when creating a droplet there is an option to add a block of storage. Is the tra...
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Hello, @casadevlimited
I will recommend you to check our official documentation for the billing of the DigitalOcean products.
Your monthly transfer allowance depends on your monthly Droplet usage; for every hour a Dr...
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casadevlimited
DigitalOcean Accounts
DigitalOcean Volumes
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I was hoping to upgrade my DigitalOcean kubernetes cluster, but have the following linting error: https://docs.digitalocean.com/products/kubernetes/resources/clusterlint-errors/#dobs-pod-owner
I followed a tutorial at...
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jstockwin
Kubernetes
DigitalOcean Managed Kubernetes
DigitalOcean Volumes
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Is there any easy way to boot a droplet from an existing volume instead of a boot image?
I'd like to be able to spin up a machine and tear it down again - and maintain all the installed packages without having to re-i...
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kieranbingham
DigitalOcean Volumes
Ubuntu 20.04
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https://docs.docker.com/storage/ says "Bind Mounts" are inferior to "Volumes". But volumes run on the host machine's disk, not the DO Volume.
Changing the Docker "data root" could move all things Docker to the DO V...
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digitalocean457
Docker
DigitalOcean Volumes
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Hey there! Wondering if I could get some help with a k8s, PVCs, and volume backup restoration.
Context
Got an app in Cluster A with Postgres, which keeps data in a volume created via a PVC resource, and we're migratin...
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careduz
Kubernetes
DigitalOcean Volumes
Backups
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I cannot login to my droplet because I get the message:
login: [37401823.055226] systemd-journal[27657] Failed to create new system journal: No space left on device
login: [37438226.727688] systemd-journal[27657] Fail...
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whitten
DigitalOcean Volumes
Container
High Availability
Docker
Miscellaneous
System Tools
Storage
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I have a MongoDB running on my droplet and I need more storage. Does adding a volume extend the disk and I can just keep running the db or do I have to change where it saves the data?
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glencocomaster
DigitalOcean Volumes
MongoDB
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I have a Velero backup going that produces volume snapshots of our production environment. Now I need to load and copy the data from one of these snapshots, in a test environment. Basically, I want to copy the state ...
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tvedtorama
Kubernetes
DigitalOcean Volumes
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I can list and delete volume snapshots via the API, but, I'm not seeing how to create a snapshot via the API.
If not, what is the procedure for automatically creating volume snapshot?
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mikeWhale
DigitalOcean Volumes
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I'm currently building a blog using a MEVN stack. My Kubernetes cluster runs on DO (otherwise I wouldn't be here).
I've been trying to figure out how exactly to get my images into this volume I created and I have no i...
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astronik
Node.js
DigitalOcean Managed Kubernetes
DigitalOcean Volumes