From: Herbert Poetzl (herbert_at_13thfloor.at)
Date: Thu 12 Jun 2003 - 12:53:43 BST
On Thu, Jun 12, 2003 at 08:03:58AM +0200, Ola Lundqvist wrote:
> Hello
>
> On Thu, Jun 12, 2003 at 02:05:43AM +0200, Herbert Poetzl wrote:
> > On Wed, Jun 11, 2003 at 04:55:55PM -0700, Roderick A. Anderson wrote:
> > > And deleting vservers.
> > >
> > > Just because my last two posts caused so much 'interest' I'll get another
> > > going. :-)
> > >
> > > In another fix of insanity I created a new vserver by cloning a _running_
> > > vserver and unifying disk space. Big mistake it appears. Now I can't
>
> I have created a tool to clone (even a running) vserver. It is available
> from the Debian vserver package (in the debian/ dir in the Debian source too).
> It is called dupvserver. What it does is in fact just a rsync of the directory
> (so i plan to extend it to copy the files to an other host) with /proc/
> and /dev/pts/ excluded. Then it changes the name of the host and ip in the
> configuration and also in /etc/hosts (etc) inside the new vserver.
>
> Most intrersting parts is here:
>
> rsync -a --delete \
> --exclude=/proc --exclude=/dev/pts\
> $VSERVERS_ROOT/$FROM/ $VSERVERS_ROOT/$TO
> mkdir -p $VSERVERS_ROOT/$TO/proc
> mkdir -p $VSERVERS_ROOT/$TO/dev/pts
hmm, so I have to modify this script, if I do
additional mounting like mount --bind /var/tmp /tmp
or something similar in the vserver?
best,
Herbert
> In Debian I have patched vserver to allow other directories than /vservers, so
> that is the reason for $VSERVERS_ROOT.
>
> Regards,
>
> // Ola
>
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