[Users] Backups

[Mike Holloway]

As Kirill pointed out, be sure to also backup the veid.conf file  
(mine are in /etc/sysconfig/vz-scripts) as well as the /vz/private  
directories.


I use this procedure along with a heartbeat program to have one  
server automatically launch a VE when it detects the primary server  
is down, works great.

There is no need to re-create the VE (vzctl create) after re- 
installing the os and openvz kernel, just restore the veid.conf and / 
vz/private directories and then 'vzctl start veid'.  The veid.conf  
file you backed up already holds the previously assigned IP address  
for the VE.


-mike




On Feb 21, 2007, at 11:00 AM, Kirill Korotaev wrote:

> 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
>>
>
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