Replicate CentOS Server for Local Testing Server

Question

I have a CentOS 6.4 Server running ruby 1.9.3, ruby on rails, with nginx, Unicorn, postgras SQL

I would like to copy the WEBSERVER to a local machine to use for development purposes.

I have installed CentOS, ruby, rails, nginx, postgras SQL and unicorn on my local machine already..

is there a way to use SSH to copy filesystem? or some alternative

What i want to do is take my web-server... and pretty much duplicate the entire machine... MIRROR COPY that is fully functional independently... so i can modify and test new additions before i put it in production.

Answer 1

You say that you have already installed webserver (nginx) to both servers, since that what exactly are you trying to copy?

Surely you can use scp -r <src> <dest> in order to copy some folder from one peer to another or rsync -avz <src> <dest> if you're trying to synchronize the same directories on different approach.

Since you are using RHEL-like Linux distro, you can simply create image of your physical server and deploy it on the local machine as virtual machine. Use virt-p2v for that.