I have a digital ocean droplet and would like to have a copy of that server on my lab XCP-NG server. I have read that DO does not support exporting, but dd could be used. To that end, I found (and completed) the following command.
That being completed, I realize that it’s a gz file and would need to be expanded, but… I am having trouble with figuring out what the next step is. I’ve tried doing some conversions to create VDI/VHD/VMDK files, but XCP-NG reports that no boot device is found. Now, I think that makes sense as the command run does not back up the drive as an entirety, but just one partition.
So, what am I here for? HELP! How should I go about mounting that partition or otherwise completing an import into XCP-NG?
So one thing to keep in mind with Linode and Digital Ocean droplets is that they are not VMs but are LXC or openvz (or some other type of container), so a straight DD will not work because some of these containers do not even have a kernel but instead share a kernel with the host system.
However, what you can try to do is install a fresh install of whatever distro you are using on XCP-NG and try the following:
Make sure both systems are up to date
Launch into a live boot environment on XCP-NG for the VM
mount the disk to something like /mnt/whatever
Chroot into the mount
Do an rsync over ssh, copying the digitalocean droplet over ssh to your vm (excluding all boot properties and anything machine related). Some parameters I found on archwiki is “–exclude={”/dev/","/proc/","/sys/","/tmp/","/run/","/mnt/","/media/*","/lost+found"}"
After the sync is complete, try booting the VM and see what happens.