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Does the DigitalOcean control panel offer a way to delete a backup that has been made for a deleted droplet? (NB: backup, not snapshot)

I created a droplet, enabling backups, and deleted it only a few minutes later. DigitalOcean made a backup of the droplet just before completing the deletion. So now I have a backup with no corresponding droplet. I'm being charged for the backup, and would like to delete it.

ADDENDUM: The control panel offers an option to convert the backup to a snapshot. When I did that, the backup disappeared, but it re-appeared a short time later, after I had deleted the snapshot. This left me right back where I started from.

Thank you.

Iron Pillow
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If you want to make sure your backups are deleted when your droplet is destroyed, make sure that "Scrub Data" is checked.

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On DigitalOcean, you can not manually delete an individual backup. Backups are automatically generated, and will be automatically destroyed after a period of a few days once the droplet has been destroyed. As the price of enabling backups is calculated as 20% of the price of the running droplet, you are not charged extra after the droplet is destroyed.

Snapshots, on the other hand, are generated on demand and will persist after a droplet is destroyed until you delete it manually from the Images page of the DigitalOcean control panel.

If for some reason, you need to ensure that the back is destroyed sooner and you didn't check "Scrub Data" just open a support ticket and the DO team can do it for you.

andrewsomething
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