pva@gentoo.org Peter Volkov andreis.vinogradovs@gmail.com Andreis Vinogradovs Primary maintainer, assign bugs to him vzdump is a utility to make consistent snapshots of running OpenVZ VEs. It basically creates a tar archive of the VE private area, which also includes the VE configuration files. There are several ways to provide consistency: - stop the VE during backup (very long downtime) - use rsync and suspend/resume (minimal downtime) - use LVM2 (no downtime)