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, seven days for daily backups, and a custom amount of time for usage-based 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.