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    8/1/23, 19:18 Download snapshots from DigitalOcean

    Leonid Burceacov

    Download snapshots from DigitalOcean


    Leonid Burceacov
    Senior Software Developer Seguir
    Fecha de publicación: 2 de ene. de 2017

    Since DigitalOcean is now (starting Oct 2016) charging 5 cents per gigabyte per month
    for storing images, it's a good time as ever to take things into your own hands and
    download snapshots to your own PC. To do that, you are going to make a copy of the
    image's hard drive and save it to a local machine. For the purposes of this article I'm
    going to copy my old Ubuntu server running Wordpress and MySQL.

    First off, login into cloud.digitalocean.com and click on the Create Droplet button
    located in the upper right corner. From there navigate to Snapshots (found under
    Choose an image) and select the image that you want to copy. Choose the droplet
    size, datacenter region, etc and click on Create.

    After a about a minute your new droplet will be available. Connect via SSH to test if
    it's working (you should be able to find the IP address in the Droplets section). Now
    you can start copying the server's hard drive to your HDD. For this we'll use a tool
    called dd. If you're on Linux, you're good to go; if you're on Windows, then you'll need
    MinGW or something similar to run dd.

    Now run on your machine (source):

    ssh root@ipaddress "dd if=/dev/vda1 | gzip -1 -" | dd of=image.gz

    Here "root" is the root-user, "ipaddress" is the IP address of the droplet you
    recently created, "/dev/vda1" is the name of hard drive that you intend to copy (run
    "df -h" on remote to find the actual name) and "image" is the name of resulting raw
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    image. You might need to add "-p1234" if you changed the default port like I
    Leonid Burceacov
    originally did, where "1234" is the alternative port.

    The reason for using root here is that by default you are not allowed to use dd as a non-
    root user. One way to fix this this is to use sudo; I personally went with the less safe
    way of allowing myself to connect as root via SSH, since on one hand I had Fail2Ban
    already up and running, and on the other this droplet will be deleted in less than 2
    hours.

    After running that command you will be prompted to enter your root password. Note
    that there will be no progress indication after that and in about 10-15 minutes (for the
    20GB HDD that is about 10% full) you'll see something like:

    41943040+0 records in

    Which means you're good to go! After that you have several options:

    Convert the raw image to something suitable for VirtualBox

    Explore the image with help from DiskInternals Linux Reader

    Now you can safely destroy the droplet and delete the snapshot. No more wasted
    money, hooray!

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    José Roberto Brasil

    3 años
    Hi Leonid Burceacov,

    All right?

    However, I tried to do the restore.

    gunzip -c /root/xxxx.gz | dd of = /dev/vda1

    Did not work.

    Did you use a different parameter in the command?

    Thanks a lot!

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    Leonid Burceacov
    Usuario de LinkedIn

    3 años
    To see the progress of the dd use status=progress like below

    ssh root@ipaddress "dd if=/dev/vda1 | gzip -1 -" | dd of=image.gz status=progress

    So don't have to wait and see 10-15 minutes


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    Satnam Singh

    3 años
    Leonid Burceacov, You shared very useful information, Thanks a lot.

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    Dat Van Dang

    3 años
    Hi Leonid,

    I used this method to download a copy of my Ubuntu but I can't re-upload the gz file to
    DO (for testing). Can you help? Thank you very much.

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    Usuario de LinkedIn

    4 años
    Thanks for the article. I tried to recover using virtual box without any luck. Getting error:
    No bootable device found! Looks like the grub is missing? Were you able to restore the
    droplet finally?

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    Roberto Giangreco

    5 años
    Thanks for this post!. Did you test to recover the snapshot backed up to other droplet
    from local to DO infra?

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    Prikshit Gupta

    5 años
    Really thanks for this article, really appreciate that. Can you also write how to restore dro‐
    plet to new droplet?

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    Timothy Verry

    5 años
    Thanks, after seeing the invoice for this month I have been looking for a way to download
    an image myself rather than paying DO to store them! I saw this tip on another forum, but
    no one had replied back whether or not they have been able to successfully restore their
    personally stored image. Have you tried it?

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    José Cruz Chávez

    5 años
    Excelente información

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