-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 hi,
apologies if someone else has already answered - i write offline ;-) Mark wrote: > Could anyone elaborate on the use of backupninja with vservers? backupninja is a great tool and works well with vservers. it is available from Riseup Labs [0], along with a few other tools, customised for debian (and possibly also distros, can't remember). > I'm trying to find the most simple and straight forward way to do > backups. (Host and Vserver). > > So far I'm running a tar of the /vservers/[name-o-vserver] and > /etc/vservers/[name-o-vserver] onto a samba mounted drive on a > different machine. backupninja is really just a control/config program for individual tools such as rdiff-backup, duplicity, mysql-hotcopy, etc. it has many capabilities (i don't use all of them), including use with vservers. this is done by running it from the host machine (i've not tried running it from a guest). > This will work well. But not for always because in order to make a > good backup, One needs to first shut down the vserver, make the > backup, and then start the vserver. (If you run torrents for > instance, those will be killed. etc.) i think that backupninja can be configured to take snapshots, but i'm not entirely sure. depends on how exactly you configure it. > Another way would be to make use of LVM and it's snapshot feature. > Which is very cool solution. > > I'd like to try my hand at backupninja. It is supposed to have > vserver aware functionality in it. But I can't find any documentation > about it on the net, except for this very list[1]. follow the links from below [1]. > Thanks, > Mark > > [1] = <http://list.linux-vserver.org/archive/vserver/msg11825.html> [0] http://dev.riseup.net [1] http://dev.riseup.net/backupninja - -- love and solidarity, --gdm http://docs.indymedia.org/view/Main/GarconDuMonde i have a NEW key: gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys 594B97C2 Key fingerprint = 7B70 F22D F275 D111 3A04 F9EE 0E25 4944 594B 97C2 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.1 (Darwin) iD8DBQFEe2MTDiVJRFlLl8IRAoJtAJ9JKmV82sDjvlQ0nI7bz9FEMSqDNwCfad8Y YIbbR4tQJaCMmW+C+PPLRrg= =YMVJ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Vserver mailing list Vserver@list.linux-vserver.org http://list.linux-vserver.org/mailman/listinfo/vserver
