- Can I download a backup or snapshot?
- How can I destroy my Droplets while maintaining my backups?
- How to Create or Restore Droplets from Backups
- How to Enable Backups
- Backups Pricing
- Backups Details
- Can I change my Droplet's backup schedule and frequency?
- Backups Features
- How to Disable Backups
- How to Convert Backups to Snapshots
Backups
Generated on 15 Dec 2025
Backups are automatically-created disk images of Droplets. Enabling backups for Droplets enables system-level backups at intervals of every 4 hours, 6 hours, 12 hours, day, or week, which provides a way to revert to an older state or create new Droplets.
Getting Started
Quickstarts and intermediate tutorials to get started.
How-Tos
How to accomplish specific tasks in detail, like creation/deletion, configuration, and management.
Reference
API and CLI reference documentation for the Backups service, including example requests and available parameters.
Details
Features, plans and pricing, availability, limits, known issues, and more.
Support
Get help with technical support and answers to frequently asked questions.
Latest Updates
26 November 2025
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Usage-based backups plans are now in general availability.
1 October 2025
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Now in public preview, you can customize a usage-based backup plan for regular and GPU Droplets. This plan’s cost is based on your backups’ restorable file size, instead of a flat percentage of the Droplet’s cost. Additionally, you can configure how often backups happen and for how long you retain them.
4 October 2024
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Daily backups are now available in BLR1.
For more information, see all Backups release notes.