For now I am running it as root and will be putting it under its own user. I am getting access denied on my own droplets I try to make a snapshot of. I am running ubuntu 12.04 root@dev:/home/backups# DO_CLIENT_ID="AAAAAAAA" DO_API_KEY="AAAAAAA" ./snapshot.rb 1246678 Attempting 1246678 Error Snapshotting 1246678 - Access Denied