How to backup the droplets to local save?

Hello,

As of the time being, you cannot currently download DigitalOcean backups or snapshots.

It is currently one of the most popular user suggestions on the DigitalOcean Ideas board, you can vote for this feature at:

https://ideas.digitalocean.com/core-compute-platform/p/download-snapshot-andor-backup

As an alternative, you can back up data locally using third-party tools like rsync or SFTP.

Using rsync or SFTP will allow you to download all of your files from the server to your local machine where you can decide how to keep them.

If you also have a database, you would need to export it and back it up as well. The exact steps will depend on the type of database that you have:

• For Postgres: https://www.digitalocean.com/community/questions/how-to-download-a-database-from-managed-database-cluster?comment=127160

• For MySQL: https://bobbyiliev.com/post/how-to-exportbackup-a-mysqlmariadb-database-with-mysqldump/

Hope that this helps!

- Bobby

Heya,

At the moment there is no feature to download your snapshopts/backups locally.

Having said that on our ideas board there is a topic about that:

https://ideas.digitalocean.com/core-compute-platform/p/download-snapshot-andor-backup

You can upvote it so that this feature gets developed in the future.

As for now. You can use SFTP to download whatever is needed from your Droplets.

While DigitalOcean snapshots are great, keeping a local copy is smart! Tools like rsync can help you create backups on your own storage. Remember to backup before deleting your droplets!