How do I recover a deleted Droplet?

You can recover a deleted Droplet if you previously took a snapshot of the Droplet or enabled backups for the Droplet.

• If you took a snapshot of your Droplet prior to deletion, you can create a new Droplet based on the snapshot image. Snapshots contain the data your Droplet contained at the time the snapshot was taken.

• If you [used SnapShooter for Droplet backups]((/products/snapshooter/how-to/back-up-droplets/), SnapShooter automatically created snapshots for you, so you can restore from those snapshots in your DigitalOcean team.

• If you enabled backups, the backups remain available until the end of their retention period, which is four weeks for weekly backups and seven days for daily backups. If backups are available, you can create or restore Droplets from backups.

If you have neither snapshots nor backups, then we do not have a backup of your Droplet’s data available in our system. In this scenario, you would need rely on any manual backups you created and stored on a local computer.

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How do I manually back up my Droplet?

There are three ways to manually back up a Droplet. You can create a DigitalOcean snapshot for an on-demand full disk image, convert an automatic DigitalOcean backup into a snapshot, or use a third-party tool for a partial backup.

Can I undo restoring a Droplet from a backup?

You cannot undo restoring a Droplet from a backup, but you can use an existing snapshot to restore a Droplet to a previous point in time.

How do I migrate my Droplet to another datacenter region?

Take a snapshot of your Droplet and then create new Droplet from the snapshot in the new datacenter.