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Backups

Generated on 19 Aug 2026

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.

Most Viewed Backups Articles

1. Can I download a backup or snapshot?
2. Backups Pricing
3. How to Create or Restore Droplets from Backups
4. How to Enable Backups
5. How can I destroy my Droplets while maintaining my backups?
6. How to Convert Backups to Snapshots
7. Backups Features
8. How long will my backup or snapshot take to complete?
9. Backups Limits
10. How to Disable Backups

Latest Updates

26 November 2025

• Usage-based backups plans are now in general availability.

1 October 2025

• 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

• Daily backups are now available in BLR1.

For more information, see all Backups release notes.

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