Manual backup/restore of OpenVZ VPS
Backup
1. Connect to the source server over SSH.
2. Create an archive of the VPS:
vzdump --compress --dumpdir /home/backup VMID
- compress : It will compress the dump file (results in a .tgz
).
- dumpdir specifies the directory in which you want to store the
dump. If you don't specify a dumpdir, it stores in /vz/dump
- VMID of VPS can be found in SolusVM > Virtual Servers.
Restore
1. Restore the archive:
vzdump --restore /home/backup/vzdump-VMID.tgz VMID
where VMID is a corresponding VM ID.
2. Import VPS if required: Importing OpenVZ containers