How do I back up my server's contents?

Posted October 10, 2014

Is there an equivalent to Windows Explorer where I can go to download specific files presently stored on my droplet?

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alexdo • July 3, 2021

Hello,

If you have any control panel like Plesk, Vesta or cPanel you can download the files via the File Managers. The other option will be to use a SFTP client like FileZilla or download the files via the terminal using rsync or scp

You can check the following articles:

https://docs.digitalocean.com/products/droplets/how-to/transfer-files/

https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-use-rsync-to-sync-local-and-remote-directories

https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-copy-files-with-rsync-over-ssh

Regards, Alex

Raul Cruz • October 10, 2014

What kind of files are you talking about?

Do you have any sort of control panel?

It would also help if you tell us what kind of OS you are using?