# Getting Started with Backups

Backups are automatically-created disk images of Droplets. Enabling backups for Droplets enables system-level backups at intervals of every 4 hours, 6 hours, 12 hours, day, or week, which provides a way to revert to an older state or create new Droplets.

[Backups Quickstart](https://docs.digitalocean.com/products/backups/getting-started/quickstart/index.html.md): Just the essentials to go from zero to working in a few minutes.