Digital Ocean Backup - Wordpress

You may see slightly decreased I/O speeds while the backup process runs once per week. Aside from this there should be no effect on your running services. Your backup images are stored on your account and you can easily use them to rebuild an existing droplet (or convert them to snapshot images to spin up new droplets). The time to restore a backup should not be any different from deploying or rebuilding a droplet.

If you do plan to see a decent amount of traffic to your wordpress site I would also recommend setting up a cron job to run mysqldump to create a backup of your database at regular intervals within your filesystem. If a lot of changes occur on your database while the backup process is running it is possible for there to be corruption so this provides an easy method to ensure you have a .sql file backup of your data.

Hello everyone,

Since It’s an older topic I just want to provide more up-to date information here.

DigitalOcean offers to backup solutions:

Backups: https://docs.digitalocean.com/products/images/backups/

Snapshots: https://docs.digitalocean.com/products/images/snapshots/

Backups:

Backups are automatically-created disk images of Droplets. Enabling backups for Droplets enables system-level backups at weekly intervals, which provides a way to revert to an older state or create new Droplets.

Snapshots:

Snapshots are on-demand disk images of DigitalOcean Droplets and volumes saved to your account. Use them to create new Droplets and volumes with the same contents.

Both do not cause any issues to the Droplet itself and should not be felt in any way.

Heya,

Using Droplet backups in DigitalOcean for a WordPress site can have minimal impact on performance, especially if you schedule backups during off-peak hours. The backup process typically involves creating a snapshot of your server’s disk, which is a relatively quick operation. However, during the backup process itself, there might be a slight increase in disk I/O activity, which could potentially impact performance temporarily, but this is usually negligible for most small to medium-sized WordPress sites.

On top of what’s already been mentioned you can backup your WordPress site using multiple methods including more sophisticated and probably tools for more complex setups like lsyncd and etc.

Hope that this helps!