[Lxc-users] Moving an lxc container from one host to another . . .

[Masood Mortazavi]

Hi Miroslav,

Thank you very much. This worked.

However, on the way, I discovered one other relevant point worth noting:

When unpacking the tar of the lxc, it should be unpacked with

    tar --numeric-owner -xzvf lxc.tgz

into its *final* destination (i.e. to the final resting place of all lxc's
on the machine).

Use of Linux "cp" to move the unpacked lxc to the final destination fails.

Obviously "cp" doesn't have a "--numeric owner" option.

Also, I observed that on my system I carried out all these steps as a
sudo-er.

Best regards,
Masood

On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 11:34 PM, Miroslav Lednicky <
miroslav.lednicky at fnusa.cz> wrote:

> Hello,
>
>         You must use tar with option --numeric-owner
>
> for example:
>
> tar --numeric-owner -czvf lxc.tgz /lxc/my_lxc
>
> Best regards,
>
> Miroslav.
>
> Dne 27.2.2013 00:38, Masood Mortazavi napsal(a):
> > What is the best way to move an lxc container form one host to another?
> > On ubuntu, a simple tar of the container files, move and copy, doesn't
> > seem to work properly or reconstitute a container on the target host
> > with proper settings.
> > Man pages give very little information on this.  (I can speculate that
> > one way is to create a specific template. However, it would be nice to
> > have an easier way / trick.)
> > - m.
> >
> >
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