I thought I would give a bit more information, as a lot of people find us through this link.

We have a free account for daily backups of one droplet!

Key Features

• Snapshot replication (We will copy your snapshots to a second region)
• Timezone and schedule support
• Hourly, Daily, Weekly and Monthly retention policies
• Volume Backups (not offered by DigitalOcean)
• Manage Multiple DigitalOcean accounts

You can see out community page https://www.digitalocean.com/community/projects/snapshooter-better-backups

If you use this link, you can get 10% off https://snapshooter.io?ref=5yc1u

This is brilliant.

Excuse us for the lengthy post. We feel we have a lot to offer for this specific use case and wanted to highlight how SimpleBackups can be a perfect choice.

Using SimpleBackups, not only you can schedule on-demand, daily and hourly file/database backups, but you can also store them on your own storage provider.

You can choose to store your full backups on:

• Dropbox
• Amazon S3
• Wasabi Cloud (new)
• DigitalOcean Spaces (new)
• Google Cloud Storage
• Free SimpleStorage provided by SimpleBackups

Some of SimpleBackups’ features:

• Clean and simple UI (few forms, few buttons and text fields, no clutter)

• Backs up individual files, folders and databases (full raw backups, does not create a server snapshot). This is powerful because it allows you to back up and restore individual files/websites easily (just click a link to download a backup) and quickly (much faster than full server snapshots)
• Provides custom backup schedules, either choose a pre-set schedule or choose a super custom one using cron syntax
• Provides a lot of storage provider options so you are not stuck on a particular platform. You own your full backups, not us and not a particular provider
• SimpleBackups does not temporarily store your raw backups on its servers during the backup process (it dumps your backups on and using your own server and uploads them directly to your storage from there for tighter security)

Additional resources:

• We have a step by step article for DigitalOcean from the moment you create a droplet until you schedule your backups: https://support.simplebackups.io/tutorials-and-how-tos/create-website-files-database-backups

• If you would like to use the DigitalOcean Spaces option as your storage, you can check how to do create DigitalOcean Spaces credentials here: https://support.simplebackups.io/tutorials-and-how-tos/how-to-create-digitalocean-spaces-credentials

• If you have any questions about why you should use SimpleBackups in the first place instead of or in conjunction with built-in backups/snapshots offered by DigitalOcean, just chat with our support team and we are happy to elaborate

Create a free account or use the following coupons for a good discount (limited redemptions):

• 20% off for the first year: DO-20OFF-YEAR
• 20% off for the first two months: DO-20OFF

Services like snapshooter give you more management over having multiple snapshots, I think you can schedule them hourly etc whereas in DO control panel you can just take manual snapshots which are useless for dynamic businesses.
The only issue I have is that the snapshots are all full, not incremental and take up huge space aswell as the time to run.
I think too many people just view the cloud to be 100% failsafe and nothing ever goes down. That’s not always the case as things can corrupt, errors can be made, software upgrade issues etc where a restore is needed quickly and easily.

Backups vs snapshots

Snapshots
Create snapshots to save on-demand copies of DigitalOcean Droplets or volumes to your account. Use snapshots to create new Droplets and volumes with the same contents.
Backups
Enable backups to automatically create system-level disk images of Droplets on a weekly schedule with no configuration required.

So backups are automatic, weekly, LOL… in 2019.
Snapshots are manual but can be automated with services like snapshooter etc