16 Oct
2014
16 Oct
'14
5:50 p.m.
On Thu, Oct 16, 2014 at 05:26:52PM +0100, Mark Rogers wrote:
Objectives: To have access to everything in case it was needed, and ideally to be able to rebuild the server as it was should it be needed again in future.
Login to the machine, stop all the services (apart from ssh!) and then use rsync (or similar) over ssh to effectively take an image of it to another place.
Then create a new vm in the new place that is a copy of all of this data, fix the bootloader and boot it up and see if it's working, relax.
Why can't you power it off and take an image? Is it hosted on someone elses cloud where you can't do this?
Adam