backup os

[solidsnake]

I will make a virtual backup of my physical server in Wmbware. I only need to take the operating system. I am doing this work to test it.

Here I can tell my friend who manages wmvare that it will be enough to take only /subsystem, right?

/boot and /boot/efi will be included anyway.

[root@testserver ~]# df -h
Filesystem      Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
devtmpfs        504G     0  504G   0% /dev
tmpfs           504G  6.3M  504G   1% /dev/shm
tmpfs           504G  4.1G  500G   1% /run
tmpfs           504G     0  504G   0% /sys/fs/cgroup
/dev/sda3       1.1T   79G  903G   9% /
/dev/sda2       976M  250M  659M  28% /boot
/dev/sda1      1022M  5.1M 1017M   1% /boot/efi
tmpfs           101G   56K  101G   1% /run/user/0
tmpfs           101G     0  101G   0% /run/user/1005
tmpfs           101G   48K  101G   1% /run/user/1000

 

[dos2unix]

An easy way to do this is use...

 dnf info virt-p2v
Updating and loading repositories:
Repositories loaded.
Installed packages
Name            : virt-p2v
Epoch           : 1
Version         : 1.42.4
Release         : 1.fc41
Architecture    : x86_64
Installed size  : 270.5 KiB
Source          : virt-p2v-1.42.4-1.fc41.src.rpm
From repository : updates
Summary         : Convert a physical machine to run on KVM
URL             : http://libguestfs.org/
License         : GPL-2.0-or-later AND LGPL-2.0-or-later
Description     : Virt-p2v converts (virtualizes) physical machines so they can be run
                : as virtual machines under KVM.
                :
                : This package contains the tools needed to make a virt-p2v boot CD or
                : USB key which is booted on the physical machine to perform the
                : conversion.  You also need virt-v2v installed somewhere else to
                : complete the conversion.
                :
                : To convert virtual machines from other hypervisors, see virt-v2v.
Vendor          : Fedora Project