Digital Ocean - how to increase the frequency of backups?

Question

Backup

Enabled the backup service in the splitlet.
But - back-ups are performed with a frequency of 4 days, which is still quite small (I would like daily).
Unfortunately, I did not find how it is configured in the DO interface. The FAQ does not address this issue either.
Maybe someone has already experienced this?

Answer 1

Yes
, you still have to take into account that their backups are not guaranteed
, so there is a reason to think about backing up to another place.

Answer 2

If you have mysql or so running there (in general, any software that does not write changes immediately to the disk) - then these backups are useless to you - after recovery, you will have a broken /var/lib/mysql on the disk. How much? How lucky it depends on the point in time when the snapshot was taken. In my practice, there were cases when it was not possible to restore mysql from such a snapshot at all. Well, recovery, even in the most favorable case, requires certain skills and knowledge.
Well, or database dumps inside the droplet will still have to be done.
And the correct answer is: ask the DO support - they don't bite.