<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Aug 9, 2018 at 7:57 PM, Pierre Couderc <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:pierre@couderc.eu" target="_blank">pierre@couderc.eu</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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<div class="gmail-m_-6329063670689149518moz-cite-prefix">On 08/09/2018 11:30 AM, Fajar A.
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<div>Basically you'd just need to copy /var/lib/lxd and
whatever storage backend you use (I use zfs), and then
copy them back later. Since I also put /var/lib/lxd on zfs
(this is a custom setup), I simply need to export-import
my pool.</div>
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/var/lib/lxc alone, nothing about /var/lxc ?<br>
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<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Are you using lxc1 (e.g. lxc-create commands) or lxd?</div><div><br></div><div>When lxd is installed as package (e.g. installed as apt on ubuntu), you only need /var/lib/lxd and its storage pool (which will be mounted on /var/lib/lxd/storage-pools/...).</div><div><br></div><div>Here's what I'm using:<br></div><div>- I start AWS spot instance</div><div>- I have a custom ubuntu template, with lxd installed but not started. It thus has an empty /var/lib/lxd, with no storage pools and network.</div><div>- I have a separate EBS disk, used by a zfs pool 'data'. I then have 'data/lib/lxd' which I mount as '/var/lib/lxd', and 'data/lxd' which is registered as lxd storage pool 'default'.</div><div>- I create containers (using that default pool)</div><div>- if that spot instance is terminated (thus the "root"/OS disk is lost), I can simply create a new spot instance again, and attach the 'data' pool there. I will then have access to all my containers.</div><div><br></div><div>Is that similar to what you need?</div><div><br></div><div>Note that lxc1 and lxd from snap uses different directories than lxd from package.</div><div><br></div><div>-- </div><div>Fajar</div></div></div></div>