Hi everyone -- I have a version 8 box. I'd like to use some kind of FTP transfer or SSHFS mount... or something... To run a backup of my current version 8 system, then restore it into a VPS. (WHAT? a VPS for E-smith? Well, I was going to VPN into it, it seems easier than trying to migrate all this technical debt into a regular centos installation...)
This means that I'd need to connect to some storage at one end or the other, or somewhere else in the worst case, to run the transfer.
I have only about 40GB in use on disk, but the backup page says "Currently your configuration and data files total approximately 235Gb." and also says " Currently your hard disk contains 40Gb of data." on the same page!
There's more than one way to do this -- but could someone with more experience than I please suggest the strategy that's most likely to meet with success? I can't find a simple way to backup to either FTP (or similar Internet-happy protocol) or to an arbitrary local path that I can mount using a suitable FUSE method.
I could also do a CIFS-backup and CIFS-restore if necessary using VPNs, but that's hardly elegant.
Thanks in advance, and sorry for being so late to the upgrade party.....