Hello everyone,
I’m running two separate TeamSpeak 3 servers on two different VMs (different IPs, different licenses, clean installations).
On the second server I:
- installed TS3 from scratch
- imported a server snapshot exported from the first server using YATQA (to reuse channels/groups as a base)
Both servers can start correctly, but after ~1 hour the virtual server on one of them shuts down with:
virtual server id X is running elsewhere, shutting down!
After some investigation I found that:
- both virtual servers have the same
virtualserver_unique_identifier - licenses are different
- IPs and machines are different
- no files or databases were copied manually, only snapshot import
So it seems that importing a full server snapshot also clones the virtual server identity, and the accounting/licensing check later detects the same VS running in two places.
I understand that the correct solution is probably:
- create a fresh virtual server
- avoid full server snapshot
- migrate only channels / permissions (partial import)
However, before rebuilding everything, I wanted to ask:
- Is there an official or supported way to regenerate a
virtualserver_unique_identifier? - Is partial import (channels + permissions) the only recommended way to clone a server layout?
- Is this behavior expected / documented for full server snapshots?
Any confirmation or best practice advice would be appreciated.
Thanks in advance.
