By relz
Hi all. I finally did it and turned my droplet dead. It just won’t load anymore - and I can’t ssh into it anymore. No backups, of course.
Is it somehow possible to download all the disk data from the droplet to be able to start configuring the system anew, but saving all the stuff I had there?
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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:
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For Postgres: https://www.digitalocean.com/community/questions/how-to-download-a-database-from-managed-database-cluster?comment=127160
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For MySQL: https://bobbyiliev.com/post/how-to-exportbackup-a-mysqlmariadb-database-with-mysqldump/
Hope that this helps!
- Bobby
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