[Vserver] recommended way to backup vserver guests with nightly cron job?

2005-12-20 Thread Gerhard Hofmann
Hi list, I'm a newbie to vserver and I wonder how to backup my vserver guests with a cron job run by the vserver host. I think it should be something like that: vserver myvserver stop ...compress /etc/vserver to a tgz file and save on external storage... vserver myvserver start Have I

Re: [Vserver] recommended way to backup vserver guests with nightly cron job?

2005-12-20 Thread Christian Heim
On Tuesday 20 December 2005 10:30, Gerhard Hofmann wrote: Hi list, I'm a newbie to vserver and I wonder how to backup my vserver guests with a cron job run by the vserver host. I think it should be something like that: vserver myvserver stop ...compress /etc/vserver to a tgz file and

Re: [Vserver] recommended way to backup vserver guests with nightly cron job?

2005-12-20 Thread Chuck
On Tuesday 20 December 2005 04:30 am, Gerhard Hofmann wrote: for backups that's what i do... every 4 hours i just tar them even while running, and then once nightly i stop each one tar then restart...it is fast enough there is minimal downtime. i personally don't see the need for mysqldump if

Re: [Vserver] recommended way to backup vserver guests with nightly cron job?

2005-12-20 Thread GarconDuMonde
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 hi, Gerhard Hofmann wrote: I'm a newbie to vserver and I wonder how to backup my vserver guests with a cron job run by the vserver host. i'm a newbie too, don't worry ;-) I think it should be something like that: vserver myvserver stop

Re: [Vserver] recommended way to backup vserver guests with nightly cron job?

2005-12-20 Thread Michael S. Zick
On Tue December 20 2005 03:30, Gerhard Hofmann wrote: Hi list, I'm a newbie to vserver and I wonder how to backup my vserver guests with a cron job run by the vserver host. I think it should be something like that: vserver myvserver stop ...compress /etc/vserver to a tgz file and