We want this as well. Makes me wonder if this not being done on purpose so you need to stay with them.

please can we have downloadable snapshots and backups

This is a must-have feature more convenient than setting up rsync, and less bandwidth consumption to boot if backups/snapshots are archived.

Please Release this feature

DO ... please, do it.

Snapshot downloads for off-site backup should be a standard feature. They do not need to be portable or compatible to other platforms/providers, it would be nice though, but having the ability to place them on cold storage housed in a non-DO location ought to be a given functionality of the infrastructure. DO, up your game a bit, please.

This should have been implemented already

While DigitalOcean Backups are not portable all system administrators MUST create their own 'offsite' backups to protect against a major DO service outage. This makes the DO backup service close to useless.

So many votes to implement backup/snapshot downloads!

please implement this

This should have been implemented already