{"id":5474,"date":"2020-11-11T16:25:59","date_gmt":"2020-11-11T10:55:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.skynats.com\/?p=5474"},"modified":"2022-12-13T12:38:29","modified_gmt":"2022-12-13T07:08:29","slug":"how-to-clone-digitalocean-droplet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.skynats.com\/blog\/how-to-clone-digitalocean-droplet\/","title":{"rendered":"How to clone DigitalOcean Droplet?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" id=\"bkmrk-cloning-digital-ocea\">Cloning <a href=\"https:\/\/www.digitalocean.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\"><span style=\"color:#03709f\" class=\"has-inline-color\">DigitalOcean<\/span><\/a> droplet enables us to create a new server from an existing image of a droplet, from the new server will be an exact copy of the existing one and also we can create several new servers from the images.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If you need to clone a droplet and manage your DigitalOcean droplet, our DO expert teams are available always to set up it for you. Check our<strong> <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.skynats.com\/google-cloud-management\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);color:#0474a5\" class=\"has-inline-color\">DigitalOcean management<\/mark><\/a><strong> <\/strong>plan to know more details.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" id=\"bkmrk-when-we-clone-a-serv\">When we clone a server we should do it carefully, because we are working with our live data. Cloning a site helps us to create a staging server and if we spend more time developing any site with a lot of applications like that, it helps to reduce the load and risk to develop such an exact copy of the site.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" id=\"bkmrk-in-order-to-clone-a-\">In order to clone a DigitalOcean droplet follow these steps;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Take snapshots of the droplet by;<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" id=\"bkmrk-power-off-the-drople\">Power off the droplet either through the DigitalOcean panel or through the command-line by<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-code\"><code>sudo shutdown -h now<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\" start=\"2\">\n<li>After the droplet shutdown, we can create a snapshot of the instance by clicking the snapshots menu and proceeding with the take snapshot option.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Enter the snapshot name as the droplet name or other as per your need.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Then click on the Take Snapshot.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Create Droplet From Snapshot<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Click create droplet<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Choose the Snapshot created from Snapshot Tab<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>From this method the new droplet created will be of different IP than the existing one. So change the DNS according to the new IP.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" id=\"bkmrk-if-you-need-to-creat\">If you need to create a new droplet with the same IP as the existing or old one, we need to follow the below method;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Click power OFF and Create snapshots as same as above.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Destroy the original droplet.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Create a new droplet from the snapshot<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" id=\"bkmrk-so-from-this-we-can-\">So from this, we can simplify our workload and easily create new servers from existing images.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If you are still facing issues, our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.skynats.com\/contact-us\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><span style=\"color:#0472a1\" class=\"has-inline-color\">technical team<\/span><\/a> will be available 24\/7 time to give support.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cloning DigitalOcean droplet enables us to create a new server from an existing image of a droplet, from the new server will be an exact copy of the existing one and also we can create several new servers from the images. If you need to clone a droplet and manage your DigitalOcean droplet, our DO [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,122],"tags":[156,157,159,118],"class_list":["post-5474","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","category-digitalocean-management","tag-clone-digitalocean-droplet","tag-create-droplet-from-snapshot","tag-create-new-droplet-with-same-ip","tag-digitalocean-droplets"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skynats.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5474","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skynats.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skynats.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skynats.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skynats.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5474"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.skynats.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5474\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skynats.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skynats.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skynats.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}