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
also:
On macos I had to slightly modify the command (note the ./
in the end that specifies dst folder):
rsync --recursive --ignore-existing --progress --exclude={"/dev/*","/proc/*","/sys/*","/tmp/*","/run/*","/mnt/*","/media/*","/lost+found"} root@ip:/ ./