[Users] OpenVZ Ploop Backup and Restore: vzpbackup / vzprestore

[Andreas Faerber]

Greetings everyone,

it took me a while and finally i made it.. ;-) I have added the option 
to switch to and delete the snapshot that was created during backup. 
However, if you do that, you lose the suspended state of the container 
as the memory dump will be lost if the container is not running when you 
do the switch (or) delete. Is that correct or a misunderstanding on my side?

When restoring the container without switch & delete of the snapshot, 
start it up it comes up in exactly the state it was backed up (with the 
memory restored). If i then delete the snapshot (without switching to 
it), everything is where it was backed up. Switching to it would also do 
it but it looks like it automatically does that when restoring a 
suspended container?

Am i mistaken here or is my interpretation correct?

Regards,
Andreas

> Dmitry Kopytov <mailto:kopytov at webzilla.com>
> 5. September 2013 11:37
>
> It seems like you will have an active snapshot after the restoration.
> You probably have to add "vzctl snapshot-switch" & "vzctl
> snapshot-delete" to your vzprestore.sh.
>
> Andreas Faerber <mailto:openvz at maeh.org>
> 3. September 2013 22:56
> Greetings everyone,
>
> as i have recently converted my containers to use ploop storage, i was 
> in need of a backup functionality that can be used on cronjobs. I have 
> now the first working version of my backup and restore scripts, which 
> are available at
>
> https://github.com/andreasfaerber/vzpbackup
>
> If you're interested, please have a look and let me know, what you 
> think, if you find any bugs or suggest improvements.
>
> Thanks, Regards,
> Andreas
>
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