[lxc-users] Fastest way to copy containers

[Ron Kelley]

Greetings all,

I am trying to copy sites from one LXD to another - both running BTRFS.  The normal “lxc copy” command uses btrfs send/receive which is terribly slow.  Since rsync works much, much faster, is there a quick way to create the container “shell” on the remote server (and register it with LXD) and then manually rsync the data over?

As an aside; I think LXD should allow the user to specify which copy tool to leverage when doing the copying.  Is that possible?


Thanks.

-Ron