Roderick A. Anderson wrote: > Daniel Hokka Zakrisson wrote: >> Roderick A. Anderson wrote: >>> 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. :-) >> >> The way I'd do it: >> export RSYNC_RSH=ssh >> vserver <guest> build -m rsync --context ... -- --source >> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/vservers/<guest>/ > > I've got this far but since it is getting a new IP I used that instead > of the current IP. Not a high traffic site so after I change to the old > IP I'll try this next step. > >> <make sure it's good, stop the guest on the other host> > > How not good? I'm thinking rsync does it right so maybe my invocation > could have been wrong. ???
It's always best to make sure something didn't go terribly wrong... ;-) >> rsync -Hazx --numeric-ids [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/vservers/<guest>/ > > The man page for rsync seems to indicate that the -H switch will be in > conflict with the -a switch or the other way around. To me, it just says that -a doesn't include -H. > Rod > -- >> /vservers/<guest>/ >> vserver <guest> start >> >> -- >> Daniel Hokka Zakrisson -- Daniel Hokka Zakrisson _______________________________________________ Vserver mailing list Vserver@list.linux-vserver.org http://list.linux-vserver.org/mailman/listinfo/vserver