[Users] Backups

[Kirill Korotaev]

José,

don't forget to backup /vz/conf/<VEID>.conf file also.
if you do dumps of databases everything else should be quite fine.

anyway, it is better take another machine disconnected from the network and
just check that your backups do work after restore. Just to be 100% sure
in yourself.

Thanks,
Kirill

> Hi,
> 
> Im doing every night backups with rdiff-backup, im running rdiff-backup 
> to the directory /vz/private, then im doing backups of each VPS in the HN.
> 
> Im thinking about a disaster recovery stratregy, if the disk of my HN 
> crash, for example, can I just:
> Re-install the same OS, install openvz, create the same VPS with the 
> same VID and same IP address and just restore /vz/private/VID/* it will 
> work?
> 
> rdiff-backup preserves subdirectories, hard links, dev files, 
> permissions, uid/gid ownership, and modification times
> 
> Im doing dumps of mysql and postgresql, every night. Then I can restore 
> the databases manually. Its not a problem
>