vzdump is an 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:
Taken from proxmox.com.
Apache/2.0.46 (CentOS) Server at download.openvz.org Port 80Name Last modified Size Description
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vzdump-1.0-2.noarch.rpm 28-Jun-2007 05:50 15K
vzdump-1.0.tar.gz 28-Jun-2007 05:50 10K
vzdump_1.0-2_all.deb 28-Jun-2007 05:50 13K