I recently upgraded a CentOS 5 system to 6.4 on bare metal. I've been backing up by rsync'ing the system to both a local USB drive and a remote system's USB drive. The backup is a snapshot of the live system's filesystem, which is spread across a couple of LVM mounts (plus an LVM swap).
I'm now trying my hand at VMware and have another identical server running offsite and loaded with ESXi 5.1. It seems like I should be able to take my USB image and convert that to a virtual server on this second system. I downloaded and installed Converter but don't see any options for my situation. Do I need to take this server to the site and convert from the running server? Or is there some way to turn my filesystem snapshot into something that Converter can use? It looks like Converter can convert from a virtual filesystem, so is there some tool that can turn a snapshot into a virtual filesystem?