DigitalOcean Backups

Rest easy with frequent backups

Back up your critical workloads every day* to help you serve your customers without disruption, innovate without worrying, and address compliance needs better.

Reduce time and effort with fully-automated backups that just work

Incremental backups and quick recovery—plus simple set up, management, and monitoring- mean less time spent on backup management

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Configure backups to suit your business needs

Run your backups at a time of your choice with configurable backup windows. Seven copies of daily backups provide you enhanced backup coverage.

Key features

Backups as frequently as every day*

Back up your Droplets every day to get maximum protection for your critical workloads. We'll automatically retain the seven most recent daily backup copies for you. We also offer weekly Droplet backups that are retained for four weeks

Quick backups with modern storage infrastructure

Our new backup storage infrastructure uses incremental backup technology to quickly backup only what you change.

Configurable backup windows

Pick any four-hour window for your backups to be taken—you can always recover your Droplet along with any files, applications, or databases running on top of it.

*Daily Droplet backups are currently available in NYC1, NYC3, SFO3, AMS3, and SGP1. Availability in more data centers is coming soon.

Pricing

Frequency	No. of backups	Retention	Price
Daily	7	7 days	30% of Droplet cost	Get Started
Weekly	4	4 weeks	20% of Droplet cost	Get Started

See how easy it is to set up DigitalOcean Backups

Boost your data protection strategy with on-demand snapshots of Droplets.

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Daily Droplet backups are now available in the following regions.

AMS3Amsterdam, NetherlandsLive
FRA1Frankfurt, Germany
NYC3New York, USALive
SFO3San Francisco, USALive
TOR1Toronto, Canada
LON1London, UK
NYC1New York, USALive
SFO2San Francisco, USA
BLR1Bangalore, India
SYD1Sydney, Australia
SGP1Singapore, AsiaLive

Looking to back up Kubernetes clusters, databases, files, apps and more, with advanced retention policies?

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Frequently asked questions

What are DigitalOcean Backups?

DigitalOcean Backups are automatically-created disk images of our virtual machines called Droplets. Turning backups on for Droplets enables automatic, system-level backups at daily* or weekly intervals, which provide a way to revert to an older state or create new Droplets from a backup.

Are backups full, differential, or incremental?

Droplet backups are incremental. The first backup of the Droplet after turning backups on is a full backup. Thereafter, every backup is incremental, which makes backups incredibly fast.

How are Backups different from snapshots?

Backups and snapshots are both disk images of Droplets. Backups are taken automatically daily or weekly and can be retained for seven days or four weeks respectively. Snapshots are taken manually and retained until you choose to delete them. If you want to keep a backup indefinitely, you can convert it to a snapshot.

Can I back up data stored in DigitalOcean products other than Droplets?

Check out DigitalOcean Volumes to learn more about snapshots for our block storage product. Managed Databases offer free, daily backups of the databases DigitalOcean manages for you. You can also use SnapShooter for a unified, multi-cloud backup management system which combines backups for servers, volumes, files, Kubernetes clusters, files, apps and databases with flexible retention policies.