Create an image of a CentOS system

Posted by Grant unwin on Server Fault See other posts from Server Fault or by Grant unwin
Published on 2012-06-24T20:57:19Z Indexed on 2012/06/24 21:17 UTC
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I provide a server (and site) to a client via Rackspace Cloud Hosting, and my client wants to now host the entire thing within his own account.

Since it's not possible to just transfer the ownership, I need to somehow create an image of the machine via SSH which I can then use on a new server.

Is this possible, and does anyone know of a way of doing this.

Note

I am talking about virtualised machines here, but I only have access to the virtualised partition and not the system as a whole.

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