Validated on 18 March 2019 • Posted on 19 June 2018
Snapshots are on-demand disk images of DigitalOcean Droplets and volumes saved to your account. Use them to create new Droplets and volumes with the same contents.
Snapshot Droplets and Volumes
To snapshot a Droplet:
Shut down the Droplet with sudo shutdown -h now.
From the control panel, click the Droplet you want to snapshot.
From the Droplet's page, click Snapshots, then click Take Snapshot.
You can also take a live snapshot by following the same steps without powering down your Droplet.