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
Thanks for the command. Baffled they didn't put an option to do this from their own API. Looks like a weird political/commercial stance.