[lxc-users] About checkpoint and restore

[Tycho Andersen]

On Wed, Jun 15, 2016 at 09:39:58AM -0400, Xinyang Ge wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 14, 2016 at 11:05 PM, Fajar A. Nugraha <list at fajar.net> wrote:
> 
> > If you're okay with "the containers contain identical software, and
> > fine with it being in just-booted state", then you might need to look
> > at "lxc copy"  (which can create multiple copies of the container from
> > the same source, each with its own unique MAC address) instead of "lxc
> > snapshot".
> 
> Not only identical software, but also identical process runtime state
> when I take the snapshot.
> 
> Does "lxc copy" maintain the process running state?

No, you'll need to use `lxc snapshot` for that; if the container is
running, the process state will be snapshotted automatically.

Tycho

> Thanks!
> 
> Xinyang
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