Building Google Cloud Platform Solutions

How to do it...

For this recipe, we'll take a backup of a CentOS VM in RAW virtual disk format. Then, we'll import the virtual disk into our target project and recreate the VM. The following steps explain the creation of the VM:

1. First, let's create a CentOS 7 VM and call this our source instance:

SSH into the instance and print the system information to confirm the Linux version:

$ uname -aLinux instance-1 3.10.0-693.21.1.el7.x86_64 #1 SMP Wed Mar 7 19:03:37 UTC 2018 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

2. Create a text file in the home folder and save it:

$ echo 'Data in file' > data.txt$ cat data.txtData in file

The following steps show the exportation ...