That was quick - thanks a lot. I don't have a /vservers directory, but I'm using the Debian packages. It looks like the package maintainers moved it to /var/run/vservers. Thanks again. -----Original Message----- From: Oliver Welter [mailto:mail@oliwel.de] Sent: Tuesday, October 23, 2007 9:07 AM To: vserver@list.linux-vserver.org Subject: Re: [vserver] how to backup / migrate a vserver? Hi Allen > I'm looking into using vservers in order to do server replication and > failover. I have a couple of questions that I couldn't find in the > online docs: > > 1. How to do a complete backup up of a vserver from the host? Is it > just a matter of backing up the /etc/vservers/<vservername> > directory? > 2. How to migrate a vserver to another host? Just copy > /etc/vservers/<vservername> to the new host? This is the config data, in addition you need the stuff under /vservers/, but thats all. When copying a running server keep in mind that there might be open files and unflushed memory. I personally use drbd to replicate the data in /vservers in real-time which works like a charm > 3. Are the list archives searchable? It would make answering > questions like this a bit easier. There is an archive at http://www.paul.sladen.org/vserver/archives/ and you might search it using google - I am not aware of any other solution Oliver -- Protect your environment - close windows and adopt a penguin! PGP-Key: 3B2C 8095 A7DF 8BB5 2CFF 8168 CAB7 B0DD 3985 1721