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How much does snapshot costs ?

Posted August 26, 2014 30.6k views

Hi,

I am really new to this unmanaged setup and being a noobe of Linux system, its really fragile for my setup when everything I do is new..

So before I modify anything, I prefer taking a snapshot, which acts like a fail safe restore point for me..

Now the question is, how much does snapshot costs ??

For example, if I take a snapshot and keep it for few hours till which I finish the modification and delete the snapshot if all ok ??

For this how much would I be billed ??

Thanks..

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asb August 26, 2014

Updated on 8/16/16: I wanted to provide a quick update on this topic. Starting October 1, 2016, we will begin charging for snapshot storage at $0.05 per gigabyte per month. Just like our other features, snapshot storage uses hourly pricing. The billed size is calculated from a compressed version of the snapshot — not the total disk space allocated for your Droplet.

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prezaeis March 12, 2015

Is there an update on this? I see the answers above were posted in 2014. I just wanted to see if snapshots are still Free to hold on to? I have taken a snapshot of my server and would like to keep it on my account as a backup point to go back to should i need to in the future.

Do you mind updating on the status of this?

Many thanks

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Brohemian August 26, 2014

Good question. I’d like to know as well.

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hunky August 26, 2014

Sorry but correct if my understanding of your comment is wrong,

But so at present, if I take a snapshot, I wont be charged anything for it till you implement the rule ??

Which I assume you would notify to users ??

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  • michaelstitt October 13, 2014

    I would like this clarified too.

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  • kamaln7 October 13, 2014

    That’s correct. You won’t be charged if you take a snapshot now as we’re still not charging for them. Once we do, we’ll make sure that all customers are notified beforehand.

    /cc @michaelstitt

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  • brianlee November 20, 2014

    DigitalOcean is too good to be true. I mean this in a good way.

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  • csev December 31, 2014

    This is cool. Is it fair to assume that restoring from a snapshot does not cost anything beyond the one hour of cost of spinning up a droplet. I made a snapshot and it said that it was backed up to Glacier - that suggests it might take a few minutes to restore a snapshot. Which is all OK for me. I have some droplets that need to be up al lthe time and other droplets that I use for testing every month or so. Snapshots are wonderful for this - thanks.

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deepankar June 30, 2015

How much are you now charging for a snapshot?

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  • jamesbowlinjr July 22, 2015

    They shouldn’t be charging anything for them as there’s no disclaimer that one will be charged for it when taking a snapshot. If they are charging for this now then they need to put a disclaimer on it before someone takes a snapshot.

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  • kamaln7 July 22, 2015

    @jamesbowlinjr you are 100% correct. We are not charging for snapshots right now and we’ll make sure that all users are notified before we start doing that :)

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Kakar July 25, 2015

Love ya digital ocean!

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arafatx July 25, 2015

10 free snapshot ftw?. I just love you guys.

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lakshitha129x August 30, 2015

Hi Everyone,

Any update on this as at now ??

Tks

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