Clone

You can create a duplicate of a slice while the slice continues to run. You may select the existing plan, or a larger plan for clones. Since they are a subset of create, they provide some of the same options:

• Hostname

• Automatic Backups

• Private IPv4

• Add firewall

SSH Keys (if any), will be identical to whatever is on the original slice.

Tip

There are many good use cases for clones. For example, one might be able to do a resize with greatly reduced downtime by doing something like the following:

• Provision a FlexIP to the original slice and update DNS to point to it.

• Once confirmed working, make a clone of the original slice.

• Sync everything to be up to date as closely as possible using CLI tools like rsync

• Once ready, reassign the FlexIP to your clone to bring it instantly into production.

• If anything goes wrong, reassign FlexIP back to original.