January 21, 2026
Your Droplet backup won't restore. Here's the diagnostic tree: what to check, what's a known DO issue, and what's recoverable when the button fails.
January 16, 2026
Spaces has no restore button. Recreate the Space, sync objects back from an external bucket with rclone or the AWS CLI, and keep metadata and ACLs intact.
January 12, 2026
Native backup add-on, on-demand snapshots, or off-site copies. What each gives you, the cost math, and a script to pull snapshots out of DO.
January 8, 2026
Restoring from a managed backup, forking a cluster, or rehydrating from an off-site pg_dump/mysqldump. Step-by-step with connection caveats.
January 7, 2026
Volumes aren't in Droplet backups. Here's how to snapshot them on a schedule, copy them off-platform, and verify the snapshot restores cleanly.
January 3, 2026
The 20% backup add-on, daily backups on Premium Droplets, snapshot storage fees, and whether paying more to DO beats sending backups off-platform.
January 2, 2026
Droplet backups, managed database backups, PITR and volume snapshots: what each one covers, what it misses, and the retention you actually end up with.
May 21, 2025
The GitHub backup tools still maintained in 2026, the four things that actually separate them, and the order to think about them in before you buy.
January 31, 2025
Run MySQL in Docker: install Docker, start and configure a MySQL container, manage versions across environments, and back the container database up safely.
