[Lxc-users] rootfs backup

Papp Tamas tompos at martos.bme.hu
Thu Jan 6 18:01:23 UTC 2011


On 01/06/2011 06:12 PM, matthew byers wrote:
> Hey i was wondering if there is a way to backup a rootfs aside from 
> copying it over. Im asking because i made a container with intent of 
> messing it up. I succeeded which in turn messed up the rootfs. So i 
> was wondering if there was a way to backup a rootfs aside from using: 
> cp rootfs.ubuntu rootfs.ubuntu.bak
> Is there a snapshot ability or something? As you can tell i am newly 
> starting to get into lxc. Any help/ideas is greatly appreciated.

You can any snapshotting tool (btrfs, lvm, etc), or do I miss something?

tamas




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