We would be happy to pay to download a snapshot, even if it were encrypted such that it could only be restored to another droplet. We need to be able to ensure that critical data is never lost; for example, we once lost a droplet and all backups because the billing card expired and the notices went to spam; by the time we noticed, all data was permanently lost. It was a disaster; a real backup on a flash drive would have saved us a world of trouble.

We would also find this very useful/valuable. Would be great to be able to share an image with collaborators, replicate environments locally, and more.