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| Oct 2, 2012 at 6:13 | comment | added | dotancohen | Though very informative and helpful, this suggestion should be a comment and not an answer. It does not answer the question. | |
| Oct 1, 2012 at 18:03 | vote | accept | pnongrata | ||
| Oct 1, 2012 at 17:46 | comment | added | Aaron Miller |
Glad to be of help! As for a backup tool -- man tar is what I'd recommend here; it's not the most welcoming interface, perhaps, but if you just tar up / on the dev box (making sure to avoid /proc, /sys, /dev, and /root via the --exclude option) and untar the result on your VM, you'll probably have about what you need. (I would, though, think hard in your shoes about whether it's possible to just bring across the development stuff without touching the rest -- perhaps copy /home/username across and do the rest via apt, for example. Always best to do the least amount of work necessary, I say.)
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| Oct 1, 2012 at 16:46 | comment | added | pnongrata | Thanks @Aaron Miller (+1) - what backup tool might you recommend, and how does it work? Does it back my entire PC into some file that can then be used to overwrite the entire file system on the VM? Thanks again! | |
| Oct 1, 2012 at 16:41 | history | answered | Aaron Miller | CC BY-SA 3.0 |