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Retrieve the Backup Policy for an Existing Droplet

An MCP tool from the DigitalOcean API server, hosted on mcp.hjlabs.in.

Retrieve the Backup Policy for an Existing Droplet To show information about an individual Droplet's backup policy, send a GET request to /v2/droplets/$DROPLET_ID/backups/policy. [GET /v2/droplets/{droplet_id}/backups/policy]

Name on the gateway: digitalocean_api__droplets_get_backup_policy · read-only.

Parameters

NameTypeDescription
droplet_id requiredintegerA unique identifier for a Droplet instance.

How to call it

Through the Smart Gateway, any client can run it by name with call_tool, or let the gateway find it with search_tools:

call_tool arguments
{
  "name": "digitalocean_api__droplets_get_backup_policy",
  "arguments": {
    "droplet_id": 0
  }
}

Or connect the DigitalOcean API server directly, which lists 874 tools including this one:

Run in your terminal
claude mcp add --transport http hj-digitalocean-api https://mcp.hjlabs.in/mcp/digitalocean-api \
  --header "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_KEY"

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