# 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