[Box Backup] Run several config-files as one Client

[Benedikt Niessen]

Hi,

This is a not so good option for me as I share most of the files between 
the jails so I would safe the files for every jail. Thats a minor 
alternative.

Any other hints?

But thanks anyway...
Ben.

Michiel van Baak schrieb:
> On 17:06, Tue 19 Feb 08, Benedikt Niessen wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I have several jails/virtual servers running on one machine.
>>
>> I want to configure BoxBackup to stop the first jail, make a backup, 
>> start the server again, then stop the next one etc.
>>
>> I was thinking to make a shell-script which calls the bbackupctl-command 
>> with a different config-file each but as the same client-id (which 
>> belongs to the whole machine). Here I could include the different 
>> folders for each jail/virtual server.
>>
>> Is that possible or how would you realize this?
> 
> I have several xen boxen that run a bunch of virtual
> machines.
> What I did is install a bbackupd on every virtual machine
> with their own account id. That way you'll have backups
> without downtime of virtual machines.
> Also, once a vm/jail needs to be moved to another piece of
> hardware you dont have to worry about the backupschema,
> because it has it's own client.
>