# Get started

In order to start scheduling automated & frequent native snapshots of your DigitalOcean droplets & volumes, you must connect your DigitalOcean account.

After connecting the account, Weap.io will automatically import all your Droplets & Volumes and you will be able to choose the ones that should be backed-up, configure the backup frequency and finally the retention policy.

### 1. Open the Weap.io dashboard

Open your Weap.io dashboard and click the `Provider Backups` button located in the top menu. On the page just opened, click the button `Connect cloud account`.

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### 2. Choose a name for the account

Type an intuitive name to easily recognize the account later and click the `Save` button. After that, you will be redirected to your DigitalOcean account.

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### 3. Authorize Weap.io from your DigitalOcean account

Weap.io uses the DigitalOcean API in order to create frequent backups for your Droplets & Volumes. In order to do that, you must authorize Weap.io from the DigitalOcean page you have been redirected. 

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After authorizing the API access, you will be redirected back to your Weap.io dashboard.

### 4. Synchronize the account

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The last thing you have to do is clicking the big button `Synchronize account`. By doing that, Weap.io will import all your Droplets & Volumes. If you don't press the button, Weap.io will automatically run the synchronization after some minutes. 

Once synchronized, all your Droplets & Volumes will be visible and you will be able to configure the backup frequency, retention or even completely pause the backups for some of them. 


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