Backup and Restore Centos 5.6 from Physical to VM

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DMobley232
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Backup and Restore Centos 5.6 from Physical to VM

Post by DMobley232 » 2016/11/11 14:22:25

Hello.
I'm new to Centos and Linux. I have inherited a system with no protection. Is it possible to backup the current Centos 5.6 physical setup and restore it to a VM?
If so, can someone point me in the right direction?

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Re: Backup and Restore Centos 5.6 from Physical to VM

Post by TrevorH » 2016/11/11 15:47:09

Yes, you definitely need to do something with that - 5.6 dates from 13 January 2011 and if it's been unpatched since then it is extremely vulnerable.

There is an app in CentOS 7 in the virt-v2v package, called virt-p2v which might help but I do not know how good it is nor how successful it is and how much tweaking it might need afterwards.
The future appears to be RHEL or Debian. I think I'm going Debian.
Info for USB installs on http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/InstallFromUSBkey
CentOS 5 and 6 are deadest, do not use them.
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