Downloading a snapshot of your Vultr server 20160730
OK. here is a way to download a snapshot of your vultr instance. (relating to thread: https://discuss.vultr.com/discussion/... )
Please read these notes:
1) Whilst I use FreeBSD to get the snapshot, it can be used to snapshot any OS, so it's fine to use this for Linux, Windows etc.
2) I've done no editing of the video other than pausing the recording during the transfer, and doing the gunzip. Whilst paused, the gunzip ran out of disk space, so I switched to another partition to try again - this step isn't shown in the video.
By the way, ignore the sneaky game playing whilst waiting - it seems 'pause' on the recorder program doesn't always work properly :-)
3)Ignore the shaky mouse pointer.. I made the video using an air-mouse on Android TV - think "Wii remote with a keyboard" - not only is it very sensitive, but it jumps all over the place when typing!
4) Your raw disk partition device under FreeBSD is /dev/vtbd0. A second disk would be /dev/vtbd1 etc. Within the disk, sub-partitions are /dev/vtbd0pX - where 'X' is the partition number.
5) In my demo, I only mounted partitions 4 and 5. That's because 1 & 2 are used for the booting procedure, and 3 is the swap partition.
6) In my ssh command, I have -p 9621 -- that's to specify the ssh port I use. If you use the standard port, leave this bit out, or edit as appropriate.
7) Spot the brain-fart moment: I named the file .iso rather than .img -- not that it makes any difference on any sane OS, but I thought I'd mention it before the pedants do :-)