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Can we recover lost msql database without having any backup or snapshot?

Posted on January 22, 2020

Is there backups maintained by digital ocean? What if an exitsing droplet is not configured for snapshots or backups and mysql database get deleted from ubuntu server?

It will be a life saver if I can have any solution for this problem.

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Simon Bennett

January 22, 2020

Hey there @buzdy

So to answer the first part of the question no DigitalOcean does not keep backups of servers for you. You would need to have setup backups or have snapshot of use a service like ours SnapShooter.

As for the recover, I don’t want to get any hopes up as I would strong suspect it’s gone. However a very very last ditch attempt would be to boot into recovery mode, and use something like testdesk

But again I would not be very hopeful.

Regards

Simon Snapshooter DigitalOcean backups

Andrew Moore

April 11, 2020

Hey @r164,

Was this a managed database or MySQL on a droplet? If a droplet were backups enabled on the droplet?

Andrew

HappyBlueGreenUrchin

January 14, 2021

Hi mate, I seem to have the same problem, did you find a solution?

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