Backups Support Articles

You can recover your Droplet if you have taken a snapshot of the Droplet or signed up for automated backups.

Backup schedules and frequency cannot be changed, but you can use Snapshots to backup a Droplet at anytime.

Destroying a Droplet destroys the backups along with it. You’ll want to preserve your backups first.

You cannot currently download DigitalOcean backups or snapshots, but you can use third-party tools to save your data locally.

You can manually back up a Droplet using DigitalOcean snapshots or backups or, alternatively, using a third-party tool like rsync or SFTP.

You can transfer snapshots of Droplets to other users, who can then recreate the Droplet on their account from the snapshot.

Creating a backup or snapshot takes roughly 2 minutes per GB of used space.