====== Backing up an OpenVZ container ======

We need vzdump, but isn't there in Ubuntu 8.04 repository, so download from proxmox site and install by hand, but first the dependencies
<code bash>
aptitude install liblockfile-simple-perl cstream ssmtp
</code>

I find that dont work anymore the download, so i searched manually on the Ubuntu repos, then i have manually uploaded
<code bash>
cd /tmp
# wget http://www.proxmox.com/cms_proxmox/cms/upload/vzdump/vzdump_1.1-1_all.deb
dpkg -i vzdump_1.2.4-2_all.deb
</code>

To create a dump in the default folder (**/vz/dump**  or **/var/lib/vz/dump**), use
<code bash>
vzdump --compress --stop 1101
</code>

To not stop, but suspend the VM, that have a minor down time, use
<code bash>
vzdump --compress --suspend 1101
</code>

After the backup, take a look at the dump directory...
<code bash>
ls -l /vz/dump/
</code>