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More Reliable Daily Backups

When I first signed up for DigitalOcean, Daily Backups were advertised, yet as of the past few months I've noticed the backups miss the daily run and instead run every other day, every 3-4 days, or every 5-6 days which leaves a huge gap. Since we have constantly changing data, the sometimes weekly backups is a cause for concern since quite a bit can change in that period of time, especially for those that use our servers for development.

Are there plans to solidify daily backups?

  • Jonathan Tittle
  • Sep 11 2018
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DigitalOcean General
  • Sep 11, 2018

    Admin response

    Hello everyone! Two months ago we introduced changes to our backup system. You can read more in our community tutorial that covers the changes we made and why - https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/understanding-digitalocean-droplet-backups.
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  • Marco Colli commented
    26 Jul, 2019 11:29am

    Why is this marked as Shipped?? You only offer weekly backups, not daily backups... It would be extremely important to have daily backups.

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  • ankit vaghela commented
    26 Oct, 2018 10:35pm

    any plan for release this feature soon?

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  • Moisey Uretsky commented
    11 Sep, 2018 06:35pm

    Absolutely, we're going to be doing quite a bit of refactoring of that code in the coming couple of weeks and working out a few bugs to improve the reliability of backups.

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  • Sam commented
    11 Sep, 2018 06:35pm

    Hi, now that DO is going to charge for backups, will any changes be made to the backup "every few days" policy? Frankly, it doesn't inspire much confidence in the backup system if I don't even know exactly when the backups will occur. I greatly prefer Linode's multiple backup slots per day method.

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  • Rob Sandbach commented
    11 Sep, 2018 06:35pm

    Great news Moisey. Any word on this?

    Irregular backups is my only complaint about the service!

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  • woblit commented
    11 Sep, 2018 06:35pm

    I agree. This is important to me - especially if they are now being charged. Is there an ETA on when secure backups will be a possibility?

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  • Anonymous commented
    11 Sep, 2018 06:35pm

    Last comment was back in May has there been any change?
    This was a very disappointing change. Random backups is pretty useless in a lot of cases. Seems silly that when they were free they were nightly now that we have to pay they are anywhere from 3-5 days.

    Thanks

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  • Quist commented
    11 Sep, 2018 06:35pm

    Are backups indeed in the period once per 24 hours to 72 hours? Or has the upper limit slipped to a larger number?

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  • Adrian commented
    11 Sep, 2018 06:35pm

    It's odd because according to your features page (https://www.digitalocean.com/features), the "Full Backups and Snapshots" feature lets you "Automatically set your server to backup every night." Is the control panel setting for this somewhat deceiving, in the sense that although you can set it to backup every night it does not actually do so? Or is this an error on your features page?

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  • Travis commented
    11 Sep, 2018 06:35pm

    Please update the status of this. It's very important to know when a backup will take place. In an age where using a CMS is the norm, a back up "every few days" is bad news since you can loose a lot of data. Nightly backups should be the norm, especially when paid.

    Please update so i know if I need to use a different service for backups.

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  • Eugene ElJefe Cook commented
    11 Sep, 2018 06:35pm

    Yes! Yes! Yes! Right now, even the 3 day backup window seems to rarely get met. Each of my nodes has at one point or another gone a week or more without backups, seemingly without DO noticing it, which is troubling as hell.

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  • Jonathan Bull commented
    11 Sep, 2018 06:35pm

    Please!

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  • Ricky Hewitt commented
    11 Sep, 2018 06:35pm

    I must agree with this. I'm currently paying you guys for backups -- but if it isn't a daily schedule then I'm not sure if it is worth paying for. Please put this on the TODO.

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  • Anonymous commented
    11 Sep, 2018 06:35pm

    I agree with this post. To me this is very important - especially if they are now being charged. Is there a set date as to when secure backups will be a possibility? otherwise im going to have to take my business elsewhere!

    Some guy on another forum suggested http://ceano.colt.net/.. anyone here used it before!?

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  • James Harrington commented
    11 Sep, 2018 06:35pm

    I am wondering what the latest is here. my backups seems to have to fallen to every 5-6 days which is just not acceptable considering I am paying for backups

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  • Rick Schmitty commented
    11 Sep, 2018 06:35pm

    Any updates on this?

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  • James Greig commented
    11 Sep, 2018 06:35pm

    Any update on this?

    *Almost* comical :)

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  • Stefan commented
    11 Sep, 2018 06:35pm

    Daily backups are mandatory on the long run. Please don't ignore this request.

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  • Liceo Aristofane commented
    11 Sep, 2018 06:35pm

    When we bought the package we assumed backups were daily. Instead, backups "once a while, when I feel I am in the mood". Now that's hilarious.

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  • Nathan Lenkowski commented
    11 Sep, 2018 06:35pm

    I've just setup a production server for deploying a custom application and was pretty dismayed to see backups running every 3-4 days on the server... any word on increasing the frequency, especially since the backups are a paid addition? If not there should probably be some verbiage somewhere indicating the backup frequency is not daily, which is what I'd assumed.

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