SnapShooter Release Notes

Validated on 13 Sep 2024 • Last edited on 28 Mar 2024

September 2024

13 September

• SnapShooter can now back up and restore cluster-internal resources such as databases on DigitalOcean Kubernetes clusters. The new feature automatically installs a backup agent into your cluster, allowing SnapShooter to back up a variety of database types running in DOKS.

  See How to Back Up Resources on DigitalOcean Kubernetes with SnapShooter for more details.

May 2024

1 May

• SnapShooter has removed support for Exoscale due to Exoscale API deprecations.

  Customers who no longer require snapshot services after this change should contact support for a prorated refund.

November 2023

21 November

• SnapShooter Server File backup jobs now have an Include Git Repos? option to fully back up Git repos and their historical metadata. Without this option enabled, the files in a Git repo are backed up but the .git metadata directory is ignored.

  See How to Back Up Files with SnapShooter for more information on backing up files with SnapShooter.

October 2023

19 October

• SnapShooter accounts created after 19 October 2023 cannot use Google Drive or Dropbox as a SnapShooter storage provider. Please use SnapShooter Simple Storage, Spaces Object Storage, or other storage providers instead.

January 2023

11 January

• DigitalOcean has acquired SnapShooter, a backup and recovery solutions provider. Learn more in our blog post.