# SnapShooter Reference SnapShooter is a cloud backup and recovery solution. Use SnapShooter to back up servers, volumes, databases, and applications from DigitalOcean and other cloud providers. ## Additional Tools for SnapShooter ### The SnapShooter API [SnapShooter API Documentation](https://snapshooter.com/api): The SnapShooter API lets you programmatically take and manage backups on the SnapShooter platform.