How to create a virtual server image in order to download it and deploy it locally?

Question

Hetzner

Hello!
Hetzner has a virtual server on centos, you need to deploy a copy of it locally on a separate machine in order to conduct various experiments with the system first on it.
Tell me how to organize everything correctly?

Answer 1

You can try dd over ssh
1. Stop all services
2. Run sync
3. Run the command from this answer :
where sdx is the target partition

Answer 2

the whole image - nothing, only separate data.