Virtualizor: How to access KVM VPS data in rescue mode

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Hello,

i wanted to share how i was able to mount KVM VPS data from within Rescue mode.

In Virtualizor, one can put a VPS into rescue mode. There is a button for that.

To access rescue mode, just login the VPS via SSH as root with password you defined when enabling rescue mode.

df -h

Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda1 672M 636M 0 100% /
udev 10M 0 10M 0% /dev
tmpfs 201M 4.3M 196M 3% /run
tmpfs 501M 0 501M 0% /dev/shm
tmpfs 5.0M 0 5.0M 0% /run/lock
tmpfs 501M 0 501M 0% /sys/fs/cgroup

fdisk -l

Disk /dev/sdb: 5 GiB, 5368709120 bytes, 10485760 sectors
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disklabel type: dos
Disk identifier: 0x0005ddd0

Device Boot Start End Sectors Size Id Type
/dev/sdb1 * 2048 10485759 10483712 5G 83 Linux

Disk /dev/sda: 1 GiB, 1073741824 bytes, 2097152 sectors
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disklabel type: dos
Disk identifier: 0x2dd1bce6

Device Boot Start End Sectors Size Id Type
/dev/sda1 * 2048 1435647 1433600 700M 83 Linux


I tried:

mkdir /vps;mount /dev/sdb1 /vps;cd /vps;ls -l

and it works to mount VPS file system

then one can edit files or maybe send them away to the destination of choice:
scp -r /vps/home/directoryname/ user@remoteserverIP:/backups/

To exit rescue mode, do not reboot, but disable it in Virtualizor.