[lxc-users] What is right way to backup and restore linux containers?

Saint Michael venefax at gmail.com
Fri Dec 4 16:32:11 UTC 2015


I was going t ask the same question.
It  is a very important one. I am moving containers via rsync, but it takes
tooo long.

On Fri, Dec 4, 2015 at 11:03 AM, Eax Melanhovich <afiskon at devzen.ru> wrote:

> Hello.
>
> Lets say I have some container. I would like to run something like:
>
> lxc-backup -n test-container my-backup.tgz
>
> Then move backup somewhere (say, to Amazon S3). Then say I would like
> to restore my container or create its copy on different machine. So I
> need something like:
>
> lxc-restore -n copy-of-container my-backup.tgz
>
> I discovered lxc-snapshot, but it doesn't do exactly what I need.
>
> So what is the right way of backuping and restoring linux containers?
>
> --
> Best regards,
> Eax Melanhovich
> http://eax.me/
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