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How do I download a copy of my volume/droplet on a monthly basis?

Posted on April 11, 2021

I want to have long-term back up. and every once in a while I want to download a copy of the volume into my local Storage drive.



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Hi there @Tapanda,

What I could suggest is using the rsync command to download all of the required files from your Droplet to your local drive.

You can follow the steps on how to do that here:

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

Regards, Bobby

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