Subject: Re: [vserver] incompatible new vserver guest layout
From: Eugen Leitl <eugen@leitl.org>
Date: Mon, 8 Sep 2008 13:42:40 +0200

On Mon, Sep 08, 2008 at 01:05:56PM +0200, Peter Mann wrote:

> i had similar problem with rsync copy to other machines ... 
> now i'm using rsync with --numeric-ids 
> (don’t map uid/gid values by user/group name)

That was the problem. I used 
rsync --numeric-ids -a -e ssh v74 root@li:/var/lib/vservers
in the past, tar only locally (as a backup). Just copied over by
rsync, no problems. I presume the tar --numeric-ids and --preserve-permissions
would have worked as well.
 
> maybe you must use tar with --numeric-owner
> (always use numbers for user/group names)
> 
> this depends on host system - if you have identical uid for postfix
> on both host and guest, there is no problem, but postfix uid is
> generated by installing postfix package 

Thanks, it seems my migration can move smoothly now.
Btw, those of you who use vhashify

lithium:/var/lib/vservers# vserver v74 hashify
Failed to initialize unification for vserver

Is there a trick to it? Needs more than one vserver in
the target partition?

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