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The text below was posted on March 18, 2013. I am pretty sure Digital Ocean has created a way to download snapshot in a local machine at this point.
I would like to receive a step by step tutorial do do this procedure. Thank you very much.

"2. Snapshot and Backup Downloads
Customers have already been requesting that we provide a way for them to directly download their snapshots and backups so they can store them locally and allow for data portability. We will be implementing this as soon as possible. While this may seem like a trivial item to add, the complexity in rolling out this feature is to ensure security in the rollout because data will need to be made available from the backend NAS systems (which are completely off of the public network currently)."

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jitenderjb December 28, 2015

http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/132797/how-to-dd-a-remote-disk-using-ssh-on-local-machine-and-save-to-a-local-disk

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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aveeshkumar September 7, 2016

Thx for quoting - did not know this. Very useful
gabrielfair September 5, 2017

Has anyone tried this? Does it work?

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aveeshkumar September 7, 2016

Thx for quoting - did not know this. Very useful
gabrielfair September 5, 2017

Has anyone tried this? Does it work?

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tailtwister August 16, 2016

Will this policy change with the new snapshot policy of having to pay to store them?

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JorgeMPVCosta September 7, 2016

A good question that digitalocean will never reply... their interest is to charge us based on storage used, so there will never be a solution for download the snapshots
geigev September 15, 2016

I would like to know this as well...

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JorgeMPVCosta September 7, 2016

A good question that digitalocean will never reply... their interest is to charge us based on storage used, so there will never be a solution for download the snapshots
geigev September 15, 2016

I would like to know this as well...

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oscarmeier September 8, 2016

Same here... moving on because of the shift in policy on snapshots and the inability to download them to our own storage. Also feeling like the new block storage pricing is a missed opportunity. To price it so highly means it can't fulfill our needs, which is affordable local-to-the-droplet storage.

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eldin September 7, 2015

Hello and welcome to Digitalocean,

"Unfortunately you are unable to store a snapshot or backup outside of our environment."

Sorry to say it :-(

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Peter7331282562 August 23, 2016

I was wondering the same thing. It would be nice to save locally, keep them on a external hdd or something, and then upload straight back up in case you ever need to. I usually make a lot of snapshots for the case you might ever need a full-backup and that does not happen often, so storing on local storage is very cheap that way.

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psyriccio September 6, 2016

Well, apparently I have to manually move all the most necessary, restoring many of my snapshots. Then, snapshots, and the droplet will be removed, and I'll have to find another hosting.

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