Re: [vserver] Moving VServers from one host to another

From: Ted Barnes <madogdevelopment_at_gmail.com>
Date: Mon 28 Oct 2013 - 10:47:24 GMT
Message-ID: <526E40BC.6070509@gmail.com>

That's great Jean, thank you!

On 10/26/13 15:56, Jean Weisbuch wrote:
> Yes it is, i usually first copy the /etc/vservers/vservername first
> using rsync and correct what might be different for the new host then
> i do a first copy using "rsync --numeric-ids -a" of the VServer
> directory (--numeric ids is very important as without it you might end
> up with files with the wrong owner/group in case both hosts doesnt
> have the same uid/username and gid/group mapping) then i stop the
> VServer on the old host, do another rsync and re-starts it on the new
> host, doing that i am sure to avoid any IP conflict and that datas are
> consistant.
>
> Depending on how much datas are in the guest and how much files are
> modified, you might want to do another rsync just before stopping the
> vserver by doing something like "rsync... && vserver vservername stop
> && rsync...", if you want to do it the fastest possible you can add a
> SSH passwordless preshared key between the 2 servers and make all the
> commands to be launched sequentially.
>
> On a LAN or fast network between the 2 hosts, with a VServer without
> too much datas/traffic, you can expect a downtime of less than
> 30seconds if you do it correctly.
>
> Le 26/10/2013 17:26, Ted Barnes a écrit :
>> Hi All:
>>
>> I would like to have a procedure to move a vserver guest from one
>> host to another. Is this much more than moving everything from
>> /etc/vservers/"vservertomove" using something like rsync?
>>
>> Thanks!
>
Received on Mon Oct 28 10:49:01 2013

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