DigitalOcean Backups

Automated daily Backups, Now Generally Available

Automatically protect your data with daily snapshots and faster backups. With the ability to retain seven recent copies and customizable backup windows, you can ensure seamless disaster recovery, enhanced compliance, and uninterrupted business continuity.

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Key features

Ensure business continuity with daily, fully-automated backups.

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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.

Learn about if backups are accessible in your area by viewing our regional availability.

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

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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.

NYC1New York City, USALive
NYC3New York City, USALive
AMS3Amsterdam, NetherlandsLive
SFO2San Francisco, USALive
SFO3San Francisco, USALive
SGP1Singapore, AsiaLive
LON1London, UKLive
FRA1Frankfurt, GermanyLive
TOR1Toronto, CanadaLive
BLR1Bangalore, India
SYD1Sydney, AustraliaLive

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.