We’ve got a few sites that were created and managed by an outside firm and are each on a Media Temple VPS. We’d like to manage them ourselves on Digital Ocean. I know we could manually move sites over to newly created droplets, but I’m wondering if there is an easy way to make up backup at Media Temple (I don’t currently have access to that account as it’s managed by them) and create new droplets with those images, then just point the nameservers to DO, set up DNS and we’re done.
Or I saw somebody on another thread mention the possibility of using rsync to copy the whole file system (assuming they’re both running the same distro/version). Anybody done that before?
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