Subject: Re: [vserver] [Q] HOWTO copy /etc/vserver
From: "John Alberts" <john.m.alberts@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2009 13:07:45 -0600

Rod,

It shouldn't follow the symlinks.  Just use 'tar -cjf vserver.tar.bz2
/etc/vservers/'
This should preserve the symlinks when you extract using 'tar -xvjf
vserver.tar.bz2'

John


On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 12:43 PM, Roderick A. Anderson <raanders@acm.org> wrote:
> I have an odd (hardware-wise) system this is giving me problems.
>
> The main OS is on an IDE drive and /vservers is on a LVM built of SATA
> drives.
>
> The IDE drive is having some problems.  I'm going to replace it.
>
> Most of the guests (the important ones anyway) are still accessible via ssh
> but the host isn't.  I will have to go to the colo to access the host.
>
> What I'd like to do is make a copy of the /etc/vservers directory, possibly
> while the guests are running.  Since there several links created when a
> guest is started I have concerns about just doing a tarball of the
> directory.
>
> Any suggestions, thoughts, or ideas on this?
>
>
> Thanks,
> Rod
> --
>



-- 
John Alberts