By rajoshighosh
Is it possible to download a snapshot of a droplet, and use that to set up my own VM locally with say, VIrtual Box?
It would greatly simplify some testing stuff for me, so that I can upload it back to DO only when I’m ready.
Regards, Tanmai
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Hello,
Unfortunately, you cannot currently download DigitalOcean backups or snapshots.
As an alternative, you can back up data locally using third-party tools like rsync or SFTP.
It is currently one of the most popular user suggestions on the DigitalOcean Ideas board, you can vote for this feature at https://ideas.digitalocean.com/ideas/DO-I-2423
Hope that this helps! Regards, Alex
If your intent is to backup a remote computer’s HDD A via SSH to a single file that’s on your local computer’s HDD, you could do one of the following…
run from local computer
$ ssh user@remote "dd if=/dev/sda | gzip -1 -" | dd of=image.gz
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