I've been all through the Wiki and old docs, searched using Google,
looked through my _OLD_ messages (back to 2003) and still can't come up
with a well defined method to copy a (running if possible) vserver guest
from one system to another.
From my reading I think I need to build the _new_ guest 'mynewone'
using the skeleton method. Then rm all the files in /vserver/mynewone
and follow that with a rsync from the _old_ guest to the _new_ guest.
Unfortunately the vserver docs are from the CTX kernels. A vserver
--help gets a semi-useful help screen. Any newer docs?
What special rsync switches do I need or use to make this process
doable? As in it is a running guest that I'd prefer not taking down
until the actual move I'm sure /proc and maybe /dev could cause problems.
The need for the hot copy is because the _old_ guest has a big pile of
installed perl modules and _other_ software packages. It would be
easier to copy than (re)install them. :-)
Thanks for any help on this,
Rod
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