[lxc-users] Fastest way to copy containers

[Fajar A. Nugraha]

On Tue, Jul 25, 2017 at 7:11 PM, Ron Kelley <rkelleyrtp at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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?
>
>
probably 'lxc init', choosing the smallest available container (e.g.
images:alpine/3.5).


> As an aside; I think LXD should allow the user to specify which copy tool
> to leverage when doing the copying.  Is that possible?
>
>
The intention was probably 'to use storage-specific method, which should be
much faster' (which is true with zfs).

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Fajar
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