On Mon, Feb 12, 2018 at 9:21 PM, Cameron Simpson <cs@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 12Feb2018 21:08, bruce <badouglas@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >> I'm testing digital ocean creating droplets/snapshots/etc.. >> >> I've create droplets, and from them - snapshots which have allowed me >> to regenerate additional droplets. Droplets are VM/copies of servers.. >> Snapshots are compressed images. >> >> Recently, I decided to try to "replicate" a droplet of size X to a >> smaller size. For the most part, the process works. I have a smaller >> working droplet that I can ping/ssh into. >> >> The issue I'm now facing, is that generating a snapshot, followed by >> regenerating a new droplet, seems to fail. >> >> The resulting new droplet has an IP, but pinging/ssh'ing into it >> fails/hangs. >> >> I'm posting to see if anyone has any clue as to what might be >> happening. I suspect that in my rsync process xfering files from the >> initial droplet to the new droplet (used for the snapshot) that I may >> have screwed up some files that are used for the snapshot to droplet >> process. > > > Just wondering: if you're making droplets from snapshots, why do you need to > rsync any files? You're effectively cloning the previous droplet, so all the > files should already be there. > Hey Cameron. DO permits creating droplets of different configurations (cpu/mem/drive) In my case the initial droplet (droplet1) has a larger hard drive (and a higher cost) I've got a bunch of stuff on it, but the drive is only about 20G I've tested creating a smaller droplet (call it droplet2) by doing all the rsync/copying to create essentially the same server as droplet1. This works.. I can access it via ssh/ping with no issues. My overall process requires me to run multiple copies of droplet2 in parallel which can be accomplished by creating a snapshot of droplet2 and then spinning up multiple instances. I've done this 1000s of times with basic droplets.. but never one where I've rsyn/copied data from one server to another.. I'm thinking that I've screwed up some "dir/files" that are unique to a droplet and used for the snapshot process.. I can't find any data on how the "snapshot/vm" process really is implemented within digitalocean. My last hope is to iteratively rsync, testing out the snapshot/droplet process until i figure out the real issues.. thanks! > Um, how are you defining "smaller"? Less memory? Less disc? > > A snapshot with less disc might have a corrupted filesystem if you cut off a > portion of the disc with files in it. > > Cheers, > Cameron Simpson <cs@xxxxxxxxxx> (formerly cs@xxxxxxxxxx) > _______________________________________________ > users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
