Snapshots Reference

Validated on 4 Jul 2021 • Last edited on 17 Apr 2025

Snapshots are on-demand disk images of DigitalOcean Droplets and volumes saved to your account. Use them to create new Droplets and volumes with the same contents.

The DigitalOcean API lets you manage DigitalOcean resources programmatically using conventional HTTP requests. All the functionality available in the DigitalOcean Control Panel is also available through the API.

doctl is a command-line interface for the DigitalOcean API and supports many of the same actions.

DigitalOcean Snapshots API Reference

Use the DigitalOcean API to create, list, and manage snapshots.

doctl reference compute droplet snapshots

Retrieves a list of snapshots created from this Droplet.

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