[Lxc-users] rootfs backup

Noah Campbell noahcampbell at gmail.com
Thu Jan 6 18:02:12 UTC 2011


With my limited knowledge of lxc, I would recommend looking at a filesystem that supports snapshots.  

-Noah

On Jan 6, 2011, at 9:12 AM, 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.
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