[Users] vzmigrate standby mode

Sterling Windmill sterling at ampx.net
Thu May 12 20:12:07 EDT 2011


I believe you can already do this with vzctl chkpnt and vzctl restore as
documented here:

http://wiki.openvz.org/Checkpointing_and_live_migration

On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 11:56 AM, Jean-Marc Pigeon <jmp at safe.ca> wrote:

> Hello,
>
>
>        I think it will be very convenient to have a way to
>        prepare/clone a VPS ready to start at moment notice
>        (standby mode), a kind of action ready backup.
>
>        I think the best way to do that is to modify
>        vzmigrate to add "--standby", such the vzmigrate
>        will work in --keep_dst mode and doing the --online
>        mode but NOT stopping the VPS source and keeping the
>        destination VPS in stop mode.
>
>        Such starting vzmigrate --standby lets say
>        once a day, could keep a fresh enough VPS
>        ready to take action in case of major
>        trouble on production HOST.
>
>        Is there a better way to achieve this?,
>        is vzmigrate the best candidate to do it?
>        if so, I'll try to add "--standby" to
>        vzmigrate.
>
>
>
> --
> A bientôt
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