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Edit a tar of private area when a snapshot has already been done [message #11438]

Fri, 23 March 2007 15:58

ugob
Messages: 271
Registered: March 2007

Senior Member

Hi,

I'd like to know if this would hurt anything:

- Do a --suspend of VEID
- Do a --dump of VEID
- Do a tar of private area of VEID
- Do a --resume of VEID

Let's say I forgot to add one line in /etc/hosts in the VEID, can I open my tarball, edit the file, then re-tar it and it would still be possible to restore it w/o problem?

Regards,

Ugo

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Re: Edit a tar of private area when a snapshot has already been done [message #11516 is a reply to message #11438]

Mon, 26 March 2007 09:35

Andrey Mirkin
Messages: 193
Registered: May 2006

Senior Member

Well, the answer on your question is: yes, it can hurt.

But if you are sure that at the moment when you have done suspend of VE this file (/etc/hosts) was not opened by some process inside VE, then you can change this file.

But I want to warn you that such changes of fs can easily break restoring of VE and it would be better to not touch this tarball at all.

Andrey Mirkin

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