[Users] Re: vzmigrate standby mode

[Aleksandar Ivanisevic]

Sterling Windmill <sterling at ampx.net> writes:

[...]

> vzctl chkpnt and restore guarantees consistency in that the state of the
> container is dumped when the checkpoint is created and restored upon
> restoration of said checkpoint. As long as the dump file and unadulterated
> filesystem are available, restoration should result in a perfect copy of the
> container as of when it was checkpointed. That being said, checkpointing
> makes the container unavailable for a brief period of time and wouldn't be
> ideal as a means of taking backups of production systems on a
> regular basis.

Yes, sorry, forgot to mention that. Unfortunately there is no easy
solution for applications like databases that constantly change big
files. You simply have to handle them separately, either by
replication on a database level or by putting the disk in DRBD or SAN.

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