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vzdump not supporting restore vzrestore not available
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description: Freshly installed a copy of openvz kernel on a fresh debian 7.8 system booted into it trying to restore a vzdump from another server. vzdump does not have the option restore unable to find a deb for vzrestore can some one help!? i am using the latest for my Wheezy. Wheezy missing the vzrestore package and shipping a vzdump that does not support restore? (note I can not post links so remove "://" below) cat /etc/apt/sources.list.d/openvz-rhel6.list deb http download.openvz.org/debian wheezy main deb http download.openvz.org/debian wheezy-test main #nonfree deb http http.debian.net/debian/ wheezy main contrib non-free dpkg -l vz\* | grep ^ii ii vzctl 4.9-1 amd64 server virtualization solution - control tools ii vzdump 1.2.6-3 all OpenVZ backup scripts ii vzquota 3.1-1 amd64 server virtualization solution - quota tools ii vzstats 0.5.3-1 all OpenVZ component to gather statistics to improve the project root@VZHN:/# apt-get install vzrestore Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done E: Unable to locate package vzrestore root@VZHN:/# #command does not support restore # vzdump --restore --exclude 1008 --dumpdir /var/lib/vz/private/1002 vzdump-openvz-1008-2015_05_02-21_31_10.tgz 1002 Unknown option: restore usage: /usr/sbin/vzdump OPTIONS [--all | VMID] --exclude VMID exclude VMID (assumes --all) --exclude-path REGEX exclude certain files/directories --stdexcludes exclude temorary files and logs --compress compress dump file (gzip) --dumpdir DIR store resulting files in DIR --maxfiles N maximal number of backup files per VM --script FILENAME execute hook script --storage STORAGE_ID store resulting files to STORAGE_ID (PVE only) --tmpdir DIR store temporary files in DIR --mailto EMAIL send notification mail to EMAIL. --quiet be quiet. --stop stop/start VM if running --suspend suspend/resume VM when running --snapshot use LVM snapshot when running --size MB LVM snapshot size --node CID only run on pve cluster node CID --lockwait …
creator: spoke2u
date: 2015-05-03T12:45:06-00:00

Re: vzdump not supporting restore vzrestore not available
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description: ok vzdump does not support restore anymore you have to type out /usr/sbin/vzrestore ?? I manage to get it working. it looks like it was installed . possibly by the vzdump I installed. not clear on this.
creator: spoke2u
date: 2015-05-03T14:00:38-00:00