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I might be in danger of being "that guy", but how come you're not doing more frequent backups?
Digital ocean does a backup once a week over the weekends. That's just the schedule I'm on. I suppose I could do my own but that would require finding somewhere to store 60 GB. I'll look into it though.
What I do is create a new live snapshot before doing any changes to the server. I don't use digitalocean, but I think their snapshots cost 6 cents per GB/month, and are only charged like that if you retain them the whole month.
If everything goes well after a change and you delete the snapshot a day or two later (or after the next backup), it's basically free or very cheap. I think it's just a minimum of $0.01 per snapshot.
I can recommend Hetzner's storage boxes: https://www.hetzner.com/storage/storage-box?country=us 1TB for backups costs less than $4 a month.
It's not the fastest transfer because it's hosted in Germany or Finland.
Note: It is in EUR will be converted from USD.