Digital Ocean Backup System

Automate your snapshot system and copy into multiple regions of Digital Ocean Datacenter

The "Digital Ocean Backup Problem"

Droplets backups are made only once a week.
You cannot choose frequencies and also is only in 1 region.
You cannot choose to copy to other regions.

You cannot create a backup of volume with a schedule, just manually

Migrate from backup to snapshot can avoid those problems and let you "free to choose".

Requirements

• nodejs >= 14
• npm >= 6
• Digital Ocean API Token (here you can find a guide to create an API Token)

Installation

Download the code from releases list

or clone with git

git clone https://github.com/giuseppemorelli/digital-ocean-backup-systems.git

Enter in project folder and run

npm install && npm run tsc
cp .env.dit .env

How to use

1. Edit .env as you like. Remember that API_TOKEN is a required data
2. Just run:

npm start

3. (optional) Add to your cronjob list on server

crontab -e

0 1 * * * /bin/bash /home/user/do-backup-system/bin/backup.sh

Use with docker

1. Copy locally the env file sample

wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/giuseppemorelli/digital-ocean-backup-systems/main/.env.dist envfile

2. Edit envfile as you like. Remember that API_TOKEN is a required data

3. Run with this command

docker run -it --name do-backup-system --env-file /path/of/envfile giuseppemorelli/do-backup-system:latest

ENV Variables

ENV NAME	DESCRIPTION	NOTE / EXAMPLE
API_TOKEN	Digital Ocean API Token
DO_REGION_COPY	Slug region name that you want to copy your snapshots (increase security in case of disaster recovery)	Default is 'ams2'
REMOVE_OLD_SNAPSHOT_DAYS	Value in days that you want to remove old snapshots	Default is '30'
DROPLETS_TO_EXCLUDE	Comma separated list of droplets that you don't want to backup with snapshots	Ex. web00,web01,test-droplet
SNAPSHOTS_TO_EXCLUDE	Comma separated list of snaphots that you don't want to backup with snapshots	Ex. web-base, image-base
VOLUME_TO_EXCLUDE	Comma separated list of volume that you don't want to backup with snapshots	Ex. mnt-base, volume-base

Digital Ocean Datacenter Region Code List

More info here: https://docs.digitalocean.com/products/platform/availability-matrix/

Slug	Name
nyc1	New York 1
nyc2	New York 2
nyc3	New York 3
sfo1	San Francisco 1
sfo2	San Francisco 2
sfo3	San Francisco 3
ams2	Amsterdam 2
ams3	Amsterdam 3
fra1	Frankfurt 1
tor1	Toronto 1
lon1	London 1
blr1	Bangalore 1
sgp1	Singapore 1

Contributing

In the spirit of Open Source, everyone is very welcome to contribute to this project. You can contribute just by submitting bugs or suggesting improvements by opening an issue on GitHub or by submitting a PR.

License

Licensed under MIT License. © Giuseppe Morelli.