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Re: Difference between root and private, what to take in backup? [message #12289 is a reply to message #12281]

Tue, 24 April 2007 10:38

ugob
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Vasily Tarasov wrote on Tue, 24 April 2007 03:59

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I've started playing with vzdump and it reminded me that I have one question about OpenVZ: What is the difference between root and the private area?

When VE is stopped you have contents only in private/<veid> directory. When VE starts simfs filesystem is mounted on root/<veid>. Simfs is a mirror-like filesystem: it mirrors the contents of private/<veid> to root/<veid>. The reason to use simfs is to isolate VE's filesystem from HN's one.

Ok, so I guess one should never edit files directly in the root?

If, for example, I want to make a backup of my VE that is only an ftp server, should I do a rsync of /home in the root or private?

Thanks

Please read the manual before asking questions:
http://download.openvz.org/doc/OpenVZ-Users-Guide.pdf

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http://wiki.openvz.org/Main_Page

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		Difference between root and private, what to take in backup? By: ugob on Tue, 24 April 2007 02:57
		Re: Difference between root and private, what to take in backup? By: Vasily Tarasov on Tue, 24 April 2007 07:59
		Re: Difference between root and private, what to take in backup? By: ugob on Tue, 24 April 2007 10:38
		Re: Difference between root and private, what to take in backup? By: Vasily Tarasov on Tue, 24 April 2007 11:56
		Re: Difference between root and private, what to take in backup? By: ugob on Tue, 24 April 2007 12:01
		Re: Difference between root and private, what to take in backup? By: Vasily Tarasov on Tue, 24 April 2007 14:57
		Re: Difference between root and private, what to take in backup? By: ugob on Tue, 24 April 2007 15:04
		Re: Difference between root and private, what to take in backup? By: Vasily Tarasov on Tue, 24 April 2007 15:24
		Re: Difference between root and private, what to take in backup? By: mgiammarco on Tue, 01 May 2007 19:38
		Re: Difference between root and private, what to take in backup? By: dev on Fri, 04 May 2007 12:59
		Re: Difference between root and private, what to take in backup? By: ugob on Sat, 05 May 2007 00:17

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