Just a few day ago the host system for my virtual server at hosteurope had an unrecoverable raid-error...
Fortunately i trigged a backup a few hours before the crash in virtuzzo. Hosteurope was unable to handle a hard drive failure in the raid, all data on the production server has been lost. They restored my last backup. The backup was unbootable. What has happened? The backup function in virtuzzo changes/removes files in the backup. I customized the system to gentoo while still having a template for debian. I installed in the virtual machine postfix and dropbear. In the restored backup there exists now exim-user, a openssh-daemon was running, there was a x11-init-script and some folders under /var/lib disappeared. The directory for the runlevel has been deleted by virtuzzo. The support from hosteurope says to that all only: "You used an unsupported operating system. Because of virtualization there can happen things you noticed". A backup which modifies files is unsusable for production use. So i canceled the vps at hosteurope and i'm just migrating everything to my new provider netcup.de. I had some problems to install gentoo on their real linux vserver, but i found some very good tips for this on Gentoo on a linux-vserver partition with wrong initstyle. Fortunately again, that entry has been published on the same day i moved to netcup.de.
I will also switch the blog software from serendity to nucleus dotclear. While not having reimported the old entries to nucleus, the old blog is still available under blog.old.