DigitalOcean does not provide a way to download a snapshot of your droplet locally. You can use rsync to accomplish this instead.
On your local machine, assuming you have added your-server in your SSH config:
rsync -aAXHv --append-verify --exclude={"/dev/*","/proc/*","/sys/*","/tmp/*","/run/*","/mnt/*","/media/*","/lost+found"} your-server:/
-a: archive mode (all files, with permissions, etc.)-A: preserve ACLs/permissions (not included with -a)-X: preserve extended attributes (not included with -a)-H: preserve hard links (not included with -a)-v: verbose, mention files--append-verify: if the files differ in modification or other timestamps, it will overwrite the target with the source without scrutinizing those files further
In SSH config, would
your-serverneed to be defined with root access? If not, then the root-owned files without world-read set would not be copied?Many servers will be configured to deny root access via SSH.