Greetings, ----- Original Message ----- > It's very frustrating to know that OpenVZ have removed the vzdump tool > without any other alternative.
First of call vzdump was never an OpenVZ tool. It was created by the Proxmox VE folks. > How anybody will implement OpenVZ if there is no backup options for the > CTs/VMs? > > Please, can you explain your method? how to make a tar with the snapshot > + filesystem VM/CT and how to restore it? For containers on OpenVZ Legacy, methods of backing up when using Ploop-based storage are documented here: https://wiki.openvz.org/Ploop/Backup I am using a modified version of the "file-based" backup on that page. I rsync to another directory on the host node. The same method should work in OpenVZ 7 because containers still use Ploop-based storage. For VMs, how does one go about backing up a KVM VM? When I do it on non-OpenVZ hosts I generally stop the VM and clone it... but I'm sure folks more adept at qcow2 snapshots could come up with a better way. I haven't really looked into that much. Of course old-school methods like running a backup client within the VM should work fine. TYL, -- Scott Dowdle 704 Church Street Belgrade, MT 59714 (406)388-0827 [home] (406)994-3931 [work] _______________________________________________ Users mailing list Users@openvz.org https://lists.openvz.org/mailman/listinfo/users
