Thanks for the replies. Its helped a lot.

Stefan.

On Sat, 2007-09-15 at 13:44 +0400, Kir Kolyshkin wrote:
> P2V migration is described in http://wiki.openvz.org/Physical_to_VE,
> that involves some manual tuning.
> 
> V2P is also possible but don't make much sense to me -- it's way better
> to use VE than a real server.
> 
> Stefan Kok wrote:
> > Hi List
> >
> > I am brand new to OpenVZ. I will get straight to the point.
> >
> > I want to  backup physical servers on remote sites with tar/dump and
> > restore them at our central office to  virtual machine.  Once disaster
> > strikes move the virtual server to a new physical server and transport
> > it to the remote office. 
> >
> >
> > My question: 
> >
> > 1) Is this possible (backup physical server and restore to virtual) ?
> > 2) If so is there any documentation / HOWTO's or pointers that you could
> > give please ?
> >
> > Thanks in advance.
> >
> > Regards
> > Stefan.
> >