On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 07:12:19PM +0100, Sam Przyswa wrote:
> Le 15/03/2011 16:31, Daniel Hokka Zakrisson a écrit :
>> Sam Przyswa wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>> What is the right way to copy a running vserver ?
>>> The google search talk about vserver-copy but I haven't this
>>> utility on my system and an apt-file search give nothing.
>>> I use Debian 5.0 and 2.6.32-bpo.4-vserver-686-bigmem kernel.
>>> Thanks for your help.
>> Depends on what you want to do. If you're moving a guest and
>> want as small of a downtime window as possible, I'd suggest:
>> rsync -HzaxvP --numeric-ids /vservers/<guest>/
>> root@server:/vservers/<guest>/ rsync -HzaxvP --numeric-ids
>> /vservers/<guest>/ root@server:/vservers/<guest>/
>> vserver<guest> stop rsync -HzaxvP --numeric-ids
>> /vservers/<guest>/ root@server:/vservers/<guest>/
>> vserver<guest> start
>> If you just want to clone one that is running, where the
>> services don't keep any significant state (i.e. no database),
>> simply use the rsync or clone build methods.
> I tried to find doc about clone build method but nothing found,
> if you have a link, thanks in advance.
vserver - build --help
clone ... -- [-d <distribution>] --source <source> [--exclude-from <exclude-list>]
... clones a guest by linking unified files and copying the rest
HTH,
Herbert
> I found vcopy and vrescue but not tested yet...
> Thanks for your help.
> Sam.
Received on Tue Mar 15 19:00:59 2011