- Can I download a backup or snapshot?
- How to Create or Restore Droplets from Backups
- How can I destroy my Droplets while maintaining my backups?
- How to Enable Backups
- Backups Pricing
- Backups Details
- Can I change my Droplet's backup schedule and frequency?
- How to Convert Backups to Snapshots
- Getting Started with Backups
- Backups Availability
Backups
Generated on 12 Nov 2025
Backups are automatically-created disk images of Droplets. Enabling backups for Droplets enables system-level backups at weekly or daily intervals, which provides a way to revert to an older state or create new Droplets.
Getting Started
Quickstarts and intermediate tutorials to get started.
How-Tos
How to accomplish specific tasks in detail, like creation/deletion, configuration, and management.
Reference
API and CLI reference documentation for the Backups service, including example requests and available parameters.
Details
Features, plans and pricing, availability, limits, known issues, and more.
Support
Get help with technical support and answers to frequently asked questions.
Latest Updates
1 October 2025
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Now in public preview, you can customize a usage-based backup plan for regular and GPU Droplets. This plan’s cost is based on the amount of storage your backups use, instead of a flat percentage of the Droplet’s cost. Additionally, you can configure how often backups happen and for how long you retain them.
4 October 2024
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Daily backups are now available in BLR1.
17 September 2024
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Daily backups are now in general availability.
For more information, see all Backups release notes.