RE: [vserver] how to backup / migrate a vserver?

That was quick - thanks a lot.
I don't have a /vservers directory, but I'm using the Debian packages.
It looks like the package maintainers moved it to /var/run/vservers.

Thanks again.

-----Original Message-----
From: Oliver Welter [mailto:mail@oliwel.de]
Sent: Tuesday, October 23, 2007 9:07 AM
To: vserver@list.linux-vserver.org
Subject: Re: [vserver] how to backup / migrate a vserver?

Hi Allen

> I'm looking into using vservers in order to do server replication and
> failover. I have a couple of questions that I couldn't find in the
> online docs:
>
> 1. How to do a complete backup up of a vserver from the host? Is it
> just a matter of backing up the /etc/vservers/<vservername>
> directory?
> 2. How to migrate a vserver to another host? Just copy
> /etc/vservers/<vservername> to the new host?

This is the config data, in addition you need the stuff under
/vservers/, but thats all. When copying a running server keep in mind
that there might be open files and unflushed memory. I personally use
drbd to replicate the data in /vservers in real-time which works like a
charm

> 3. Are the list archives searchable? It would make answering
> questions like this a bit easier.
There is an archive at http://www.paul.sladen.org/vserver/archives/ and
you might search it using google - I am not aware of any other solution

Oliver

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