How you backup OpenVZ node server?

[ICPH]

Hello,

How do You backup virtual machines / VPSs on your OpenVZ server?

Any clever, non gzipping rsync way? Im currently runnning vzdump with compression and suspend on all containers. Its quite HDD intensive process

 

[KuJoe]

We do vzdump + rsnapshot.

 

[HalfEatenPie]

vzdump, rsync, and even more rsync.  

 

[comXyz]

I usually copy and paste

 

[Geek]

@KuJoe and @HalfEatenPie have it right...  You can set your --ionice and --bwlimit flags to reduce the I/O intensity as well...  'man vzdump'.

 

[dcdan]

To reduce I/O load you could also vzdump onto a separate drive, just mount it under /vz/dump. This drive does not even have to be RAID storage, just a single drive. Also rsync allows you to throttle transfers which could also be used to reduce I/O load on disks.

 

[EnveraHost]

We automate backups with SolusVM, it keeps the VPS online and backs up to another server using vzdump.