On Sat, Feb 24, 2007 at 05:00:33PM +0100, Peter Mann wrote: > On Sat, Feb 24, 2007 at 04:13:43PM +0100, Eugen Leitl wrote: > > I run a nightly script (over a private network) which does the > > following synchronisation from the production to the backup machine: > > rsync -a -e ssh /home/ [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/ > > rsync -a -e ssh /usr/local/etc/vservers/ [EMAIL > > PROTECTED]:/usr/local/etc/vservers/ > > > > My vservers live in /vservers which is a symlink to /home/vservers. > > Apart from /usr/local/etc/vservers/ is there anything else I should synch? > > my tip: use rsync --numeric-ids and --exclude "vservers/name1/proc" ... > (and you can use rsync without -e ssh, because it's default in Debian; > and maybe -e 'ssh -c blowfish')
if you are doing the sync over a trusted network, then getting rid of the ssh/encryption part is a big win, both for speed and for cpu overhead if your network is the bottleneck, using the -z (compression) will help too, otherwise the following options might come handy: -axHP > i'm using some similar rsync scripts ... > > > Another question: Debian 4.0 is ante portas. Given that 3.1 had > > everything way out of date, can one rely on stock vserver kernel > > and tools in Debian 4.0? I hope I'm wrong, but to me it looks like the new Debian release will already be outdated when the release happens ... but hey, that's the debian model ... > i upgraded all my sarge host servers to etch ... some guest servers is > still sarge, but almost all are etch ... there is problem with default > debian vserver kernel in TESTING, but i have my own recompiled kernels > and new debian kernels are almost ready for entering "testing" (and > debian-installer etch rc2/final) best, Herbert > -- > > 5o Peter.Mann at tuke.sk > _______________________________________________ > Vserver mailing list > Vserver@list.linux-vserver.org > http://list.linux-vserver.org/mailman/listinfo/vserver _______________________________________________ Vserver mailing list Vserver@list.linux-vserver.org http://list.linux-vserver.org/mailman/listinfo/vserver
