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The best way to copy a VE [message #15211]

Sat, 21 July 2007 21:35

logisch
Messages: 5
Registered: July 2007

Junior Member

Hello,
what is the best way to copy a running VE with ID xxx on the same machine.
1. Stop VE xxx
2. Copying xxx.conf to yyy.conf
3. Change yyy.conf (IP and so on)
4. Copying /private/xxx to /private/yyy
5. Copying empty directory /root/xxx to /root/yyy
6. Starting old and new VE.
That was it ... it run´s by me

But is this the best and most famous way to do?

Thanks.
Steve.

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Re: The best way to copy a VE [message #15217 is a reply to message #15211]

Sun, 22 July 2007 22:14

dayid
Messages: 6
Registered: July 2007
Location: Southeast U.S.

Junior Member

I would imagine that works.

I generally copy from machine to machine (to balance multiple hardware nodes, etc) and do:

1. rsync -avzuPe 'ssh -p ####' /vz/private/$VEID master@newmachine:/vz/private/
2. vzctl stop $VEID (stopping after sync allows it to be up while moving all the files - nice if it's a bigger VE)
3. rsync -avzuPe 'ssh -p ####' --delete /vz/private/$VEID master@newmachine:/vz/private/
4. rsync -avzuPe 'ssh -p ####' /etc/sysconfig/vz-scripts/$VEID.conf master@newmachine:/etc/sysconfig/vz-scripts/
5. ssh master@newmachine
6. (set ip or iptables nat rules)
7. vzctl start $VEID

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