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How to Shutdown and Destroy your Sail Server

If you need to destroy your server provisioned with Sail on DigitalOcean, you've come to the right place.

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Backup first

Before you do though, make sure you create a backup of all your production data, because it will be scrubbed when deleting your DigitalOcean droplet.

Shutdown and destroy

After you've backed up all your data, just run:

sail destroy

This will instruct DigitalOcean to shutdown and destroy your droplet, remove the internal DNS entry associated with your server, as well as delete the .sail directory from your local working copy.

Your working copy will not be deleted by sail destroy, you'll need to do this manually if you wish. The .backups directory will also not be affected and will need to be deleted manually, if that's what you're after.