How do i recover my domain.crt and domain.key from my deleted ubuntu droplet

Posted on March 17, 2022

I erroneouslly deleted my ubuntu-s-1vcpu-1gb-amd-fra1-01 from my droplet and i used the deleted droplet to generate domain.crt and domain.key earlier and to add the two files mentioned above to my file path. Now the ubuntu is deleted from my project and i created a new one. i want to finalize everything by adding the ssl certificate already approved to my domain managed on digital ocean. now i want to add the .crt and .key files generated earlier back to my project and finalize the ssl linking to my website.

i have no idea and am very confused on this. someone should help me please

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KFSys

March 18, 2022

Hey @udunanka,

Why don’t you generate a new certificate on your new Droplet, it shouldn’t be hard and impossible? You can even use Let’s Encrypt/certbot to issue it and configure it in one step.

Regarding the old droplet, if you don’t have a snapshot to restore it from, your best bet would be contacting DigitalOcean’s support and asking them if they have a backup of the said droplet.

https://www.digitalocean.com/support/

Hope that helps! - KFSys.

Bobby

March 18, 2022

Hello,

If you do not have a backup of your server, I could suggest two things:

You can get a free new Let’s Encrypt SSL certificate by following the steps here:

https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-secure-apache-with-let-s-encrypt-on-ubuntu-18-04

Alternatively, if the certificate that you are trying to recover was a purchased certificate from an SSL certificate provider, you could reach out to them and ask them to regenerate the certificate files for you.

Hope that this helps!

Regards,

Bobby

alexdo

September 26, 2024

It’s worth double-checking if you have backups:

DigitalOcean Snapshots:

Log in to your DigitalOcean Control Panel.
Navigate to the “Droplets” section.
Check if there are any snapshots that were taken automatically or manually. If you find one, you can create a new droplet from the snapshot to recover your files.

Backups:

Again, check if you might have enabled backups at any point. These are different from snapshots and might provide another route to recovery.

If snapshots and backups are not available, you can try using testdisk to recover deleted files. testdisk is a powerful data recovery tool that can work in some cloud environments. You can also check this article:

https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-install-testdisk-on-linux-and-recover-deleted-files

Hope that this helps!