Restore DigitalOcean Droplet from Snapshot

Overview

While this guide is focused on customers of SnapShooter, it will work for any snapshot or backup taken inside your DigitalOcean account.

When restoring a droplet to a backup/snapshot you will erase all data currently on the machine, you can always take a snapshot before you start a recovery process

Locate Backup Name

Before you start you need to find your backup name, if you are using DigitalOcean Weekly backups, you don't need todo this step.recovery

• Log in to SnapShooter

• Find your droplet

• View the Snapshots Table

• Find the SnapShot you wish to recovery

• Copy the name

• Press view in DigitalOcean button

• If the link does not work, make sure you're in the correct team

Restoring

It's advised to do a manual SnapShot before attempting a recovery

In our example, we are going to try and restore to 2020-01-18 10:00:09

• Login to DigitalOcean

• Find your Droplet

• On the sidebar select Destroy (Don't worry we are not going to destroy it)

• In the Rebuild Droplet Box paste in the SnapShot name (in our case 2020-01-18 10:00:09)

• The 'Created from' should match the name of the droplet

• Press Rebuild

• You will be asked to confirm

• Press

• Wait for Rebuild Process

• The process is dependant on the size of the droplet snapshot, and can be slow. The process bar in DigitalOcean is not very helpful for estimating time

• The server should boot once completed