Simon Bennett
Better Daily DigitalOcean Backups snapshooter.io Backup your droplets and volumes from hourly to daily.
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Droplets backups storage location
Hello @ceo287837 Full disclosure I am the founder of a backup company that specialises in DigitalOcean Backups. DigitalOcea… -
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Bill.DO - DigitalOcean Billing Insights Tool
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Backup or Snapshot My Droplet
Hello @Appsdev85 I always before a backup before running large Laravel migrations so good thinking. So the snapshot will do…Accepted Answer: Hello @Appsdev85 I always before a backup before running large Laravel migrations so good thinking. So the snapshot will do… -
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Digitalocean Spaces Outbound Transfer Ambiguous
As you can only have one subscription I would say the limits 1TB over all the spaces in your account. However, a note of clarifi… -
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Dont work, Add SSH keys after Droplet created
Hello @cesarfarro So you will need to login to the server via the password authentication and paste the public key into `~/.ssh… -
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Load balancer SSL Multi Domains
Hello @tomrproactive , your correct you can only attach one domain + its subdomains to an SSL. There is an option to bring …Accepted Answer: Hello @tomrproactive , your correct you can only attach one domain + its subdomains to an SSL. There is an option to bring … -
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Can I take a snapshot of a droplet in one account and move it to another account and restore it?
Yes, you can! You can do a transfer request of a snapshot. See more https://www.digitalocean.com/docs/images/snapshots/how-t… -
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Snapshot backups
Hey @kevinMorel Disclosure I am the founder of SnapShooter and we focus on improving DigitalOceans backups for customers. … -
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Can we restore snapshot or backup from one droplet to other one.
Yes, it’s possible to restore a running droplet to a SnapShot. Find your droplet you want to override with a Snapshot. Pr… -
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How to backup droplet/whole server to my own storage?
This is a use case that some of the customers at SnapShooter use to get their droplet data within there o… -
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the best way to make a backup?
Hey @jamachuca28, Simon from SnapShooter here. We are sorry if the process of connecting SnapShooter to DigitalOcean was con… -
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Are floating IPs a safe choice for my needs?
Hello @alonLobster 1) I would say its not likely however not impossible. 2) DNS, if you can use DNS this removes the whole wor… -
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How to backup individual files?
Hello @skeddtemp You’re right if you want to backup just a single file your going to find a whole server backup/snapshot is not… -
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Is it possible to save a snapshot to external media?
Hello @sssggg62 It is not possible to export DigitalOcean native backups. See our article on this [Can you download DigitalOcea… -
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Can I backup mysql db by using Recovery ISO
Hello @tinhpham0997 (Full disclosure I am the founder and CEO of SnapShooter Backup Service T… -
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Where to backup VPS data (databases + binary data)?
Hello @nestorllamas91 *(Full disclosure I am the founder and CEO of SnapShooter Backup Service which … -
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When would you use Backups instead of Snapshots?
Hello @schuy Good question, full disclosure I run a service called SnapShooter which enables you to t… -
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How to obtain user's IP address when using private IP for reverse proxy?
Hey @schester44 Add the following proxy_set_header X-Real-IP $remote_addr; proxy_set_header X-Forw...Accepted Answer: Hey @schester44 Add the following proxy_set_header X-Real-IP $remote_addr; proxy_set_header X-Forw... -
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Snapshot recovery process has problems
Sorry to hear this, I am not from DigitalOcean however I run a DigitalOcean backup business. I would recommend to get your ke… -
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Local development using a remote DB on a DO Droplet
Great question @HelloCharlie It reminds me of pre VM development, however working on a server in production, would not be somet…