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Guides written from what we measured and what the vendors document, not from memory. Everything here works without hetshield; the product appears where it saves you a step.
Hetzner offers no snapshot export or download. The three real options, what each costs in downtime and effort, and how to get a bootable image out.
Cases of Hetzner terminating accounts, what the terms allow, why snapshots and Storage Boxes vanish with the account, and how to hold a copy outside it.
Backups, snapshots and Storage Boxes all live in one Hetzner account. Compare file backups, PBS and whole-server export for a copy that survives losing it.
Convert a raw Hetzner disk image to VMDK, VHDX or VDI with qemu-img, plus the boot fixes each hypervisor needs. Commands for ESXi, Hyper-V and VirtualBox.
Cloud volumes are excluded from Hetzner snapshots and backups. How to check before you rely on one, and how to back a volume up separately.
Get a raw disk image out of Hetzner Cloud while it keeps running, import it with qm disk import, and fix cloud-init, networking and boot on first start.