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DigitalOcean Backups & Snapshots

Data protection through automated backups and manual snapshots.

Features

  • Automated Droplet backups
  • Manual snapshots
  • Volume snapshots
  • Database backups
  • Point-in-time recovery

Documentation

Quick Start

# Enable backups on Droplet
doctl compute droplet-action enable-backups <droplet-id>

# Create snapshot
doctl compute droplet-action snapshot <droplet-id> --snapshot-name "backup-2026-01-10"