TLDR: 52-70 seconds per GB We often see the question, how long does a DigitalOcean Snapshot take on community forums, so we thought we would look at our past 2.5 million snapshots and come up with an answer, or most probably a range of minutes per GB. For this research, we are only looking at droplet backups. Volume snapshots are 'instant'. They are a point in time disk snapshots which are then compressed and exported away. From the API point of view, if you request the size of a SnapShot after 30 minutes, you will see its billable size shrink as the data is compressed. Continue Read
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If your Droplet has an extremely active database its worth exporting the data into a static file just before taking a snapshot, this was you guarantee your data is safely backed up and restorable without corruption. For this guide, we are going to base it on using MySQL but this is possible for any database where you can export into a static file. Continue Read
DigitalOcean announced spaces Septemeber 2017 and they are now generally available to all developers. Spaces is a simple standalone object storage service which enabled developers to store and serve any data with automatic scaling. You can try out spaces, with a free 2-month trial. Continue Read