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Need US-Based (pref. Florida) KVM provider that can import from an image/backup

twaintwain Member
edited August 2013 in Requests

I will soon be migrating/de-commisioning a physical server, and will essentially just need to migrate one KVM VM (from a Cloudmin KVM GPL host).

I am looking for monthly KVM US-based offers based on the following:


US-Based, preferably Florida

Provider needs to be able to import from a tar.gz backup (which has the LVM disk image) of a KVM VM that I provide.

KVM

100G HDD (hwraidX, SSD not required, but not averse to quotes that include SSD or SSD-cached)

1.5G RAM

1 IP address (with quotes on 2)

This will be running ISPConfig3 with a few Wordpress websites

I have 1.5G of swap but if you can't provide swap I'm not worried about it.


root@meta:~# fdisk -l

Disk /dev/vda: 104.9 GB, 104857600000 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 12748 cylinders, total 204800000 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x00048014

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/vda1            2048   204797951   102397952   83  Linux

Disk /dev/vdb: 1572 MB, 1572864000 bytes
25 heads, 25 sectors/track, 4915 cylinders, total 3072000 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x00015ed7

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System

/dev/vdb1            2048     3069951     1533952   82  Linux swap / Solaris

root@meta:~# df -h
Filesystem      Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/vda1        97G  2.1G   90G   3% /
udev            1.6G  4.0K  1.6G   1% /dev
tmpfs           631M  300K  631M   1% /run
none            5.0M  4.0K  5.0M   1% /run/lock
none            1.6G     0  1.6G   0% /run/shm

root@meta:~# cat /etc/fstab
proc    /proc   proc    nodev,noexec,nosuid 0   0
/dev/vda1   /   ext3    errors=remount-ro,usrjquota=quota.user,grpjquota=quota.group,jqfmt=vfsv0    0   1
/dev/vdb1   swap    swap    defaults    0   0

Example contents of the format of the tar.gz KVM LVM image backup. This example is from a backup of a 20G KVM VM. The backup I provide would be 100G in size after extraction. So it appears to be the whole LVM disk image/snapshot inside the tar.gz, however the actual tar.gz is much smaller.


[root@one ~]# ll /bk/web1/kvm-vm-backup.tar.gz 
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 483418048 Dec 18  2011 /bk/web1/kvm-vm-backup.tar.gz

[root@one ~]# tar -ztvf /bk/web1/kvm-vm-backup.tar.gz 
drwx------ root/root         0 2011-12-18 21:17 ./
-rw-r--r-- root/root 536870912 2011-12-18 21:17 ./kvm-vm_swap
-rw-r--r-- root/root 21474836480 2011-12-18 21:17 ./kvm-vm_img

Comments

  • jarjar Patron Provider, Top Host, Veteran

    @KuJoe comes to mind immediately. Maybe he can weigh in on if this is something he can or is willing to do.

  • @jarland ok thanks, a bit surprising that I received no offers though..

  • jarjar Patron Provider, Top Host, Veteran

    I actually see that he hasn't been active here recently. He's certainly one of the more knowledgeable providers around here, and a beast at running servers. I can't think of anything I wouldn't trust him with. Maybe if you've got some time give him a shout on here: http://serverdragon.com/contact.php

    Best of luck!

  • @twain I'm pretty sure I can deal something out... our nearest server is in Jacksonville, Florida.

    If you're still searching for a host, please send me an email at service (at) nixcom (dot) ca

    Regards,

    Martin

  • PM'd.

  • Going w/@serverian for this as he provided an excellent offer at his upcoming Miami location. I have one of his 500G storage VPS'es already, which has been great...

  • Hope you the best :)

  • twaintwain Member
    edited August 2013

    Just wanted to update this to commend @serverian for being able to easily import my LVM backup into his new Orlando (5ms to Miami :) ) location... Everything's working great, and I would recommend Backupsy to anyone.. he goes the extra step for you.

    Thanks @serverian!

    Thanked by 1serverian
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