On Wed, Mar 29, 2006 at 04:20:47PM +0200, Gerhard Hofmann wrote: > Hi all, > > I have two vserver host machines: mainvserv and backvserv > > mainvserv has some running vserver guests. I want to place an (rsync'd) > copy of all my vserver guests on backvserv. In case mainvserv crashes, I > want to activate vserver guests on backvserv. > > I have tried two ways of syncing the guests: > method 1: save /etc/vservers and /var/lib/vservers directories into a > tgz file and untar this file on backvserv. I have used "tar -cvzpf ..." > to keep all file permissions and ownerships. > > method 2: > rsync -vazPxle ssh --numeric-ids --delete \ > --exclude=*/init/mark \ > --hard-links /etc/vservers/* backvserv:/etc/vservers \ > >> /var/log/vserverrsync.log > > > rsync -vazPxle ssh --numeric-ids --delete \ > --exclude=*/proc \ > --exclude=*/dev \ > --hard-links /var/lib/vservers/* backvserv:/var/lib/vservers \ > >> /var/log/vserverrsync.log > > > Both ways of copying the vserver guests leed to these error messages > when trying to startup a copied vserver on backvserv: > ---snip--- > An error occured while executing the vserver startup sequence; when > there are no other messages, it is very likely that the init-script > (/etc/init.d/rc 3) failed. > > Common causes are: > * /etc/rc.d/rc on Fedora Core 1 and RH9 fails always; the 'apt-rpm' build > method knows how to deal with this, but on existing installations, > appending 'true' to this file will help. > ---snip--- > > What is wrong here?
check that the symbolic links inside the config tree exist and point to the proper places and that the /dev files and /proc dir is there most likely your tool configurations differ slightly and this is not given also the (longer) output of --debug (for startup) might shed some light on it ... best, Herbert > Both vserver hosts are 32-bit machines (but different hardware) and are > based on Knoppix/Debian 4.0.2. All VServer stuff was installed as > described in this HowTo: > http://www.howtoforge.com/linux_vserver_debian > > Kernel version on both mainvserv and backvserv is 2.6.12.4-vs2.0 > > Of course I have tested VServer environment on backvserv. I can create > and run new VServer guests without any problems. > > TIA > Gerhard > > _______________________________________________ > Vserver mailing list > [email protected] > http://list.linux-vserver.org/mailman/listinfo/vserver _______________________________________________ Vserver mailing list [email protected] http://list.linux-vserver.org/mailman/listinfo/vserver
