[Lxc-users] Moving lxc containers

[Ramez Hanna]

On Sun, 27 Mar 2011, 11:34:47 EEST, Amit Uttamchandani <amit.uttam at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> I'm just wondering what the best way is to move an lxc container? Can I
> just tar the root filesystem and untar it on another system? Or should I
> rsync it over?
>
> I understand that before doing any of the above, the container should be
> shutdown first. However, is there a way to do this while the container
> is running?
>
> Thanks,
> Amit
>
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AFAIK you should be able to tar the filesystem even while running
in case the container isx already running you might want to skip a few dirs like /proc and /sys and /dev and maybe /var/run

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