We're using Virtualmin 3.83 gpl on Debian 5.0 as a platform for website development. Everything is working great, thanks for the awesome system.
My newb question is how to restore a backup of the main development virtual server to a "sandbox" virtual server on the same box. The site is URL agnostic it just needs the code, mySQL database and one tweak for it to work. We need to be able to take a backup of the production development site (production development lol, yeah we follow a real tight SDLC) and create a test area for the developer to try whatever tomfoolery he wants to try without interrupting the designer.
Is there an easy way to do this? If there isn't an easy way is there a way to restore just the database to a different one? (Moving the files is relatively easy from the command line.)
Howdy,
There's isn't an automated way to take an existing Virtual Server, and restore it to a sandbox on the same server.
The simplest way to do that would be to restore it on another server. If you don't have an actual server laying around, you could always setup something in Virtualbox running on your desktop (or your developers desktop).
Alternatively, you could manually migrate your data from one Virtual Server to another. You could generate a database dump from the command line, and restore it to an alternate Virtual Server.
-Eric