Small OpenVZ admin and backup scripts

I am now using OpenVZ for a while, and by the time I created very small scripts to make my sysadmin life easier.

Update 2013-01-14: as this evolve, I put them on github: StalkR/misc/openvz.

Update 2010-06-10: new scripts and updated some of them. Instead of embedding them in the post, scripts are available here.

You'll find:

• vz* for OpenVZ, there are many but my favourite is vzl (a nice vzlist)
• backup-all, to do backups using vzdump (with a powerful backup exclude system), send them to FTP, nice summary output
• backup-purge, to purge old and no longer valid backups on FTP
• ftpbackup*, for all FTP backup stuff using lftp: send files, get disk usage, shortcut to send FTP commands

I have put these scripts in /usr/local/sbin and find them useful. Note that many of these scripts depends on others to work properly.

If you like them too, help yourself!

OpenVZ 2.6.32, soon Proxmox kernel 2.6.32 with KVM & OpenVZ

This is great, I just discovered that OpenVZ has a 2.6.32 branch: kernel 2.6.32-avdeyev.1 is available. As you may now, 2.6.32 will be a major kernel version (like 2.6.18 was) for important distributions such as RedHat 6, Debian squeeze, etc. By the way, squeeze should be released as Debian stable this year.

A good consequence is that Proxmox Kernel 2.6.32 which currently has only KVM will also support OpenVZ, so no longer need to stick with the old 2.6.18. They did not announced a release date for now, but it should come this year too.