[lxc-users] near-live migration

[Kees Bos]

Ah, I see.

https://github.com/lxc/lxd/issues/3326

It looks like that's a prerequisite for something like
	lxc move c1 s-tollana: --stateless
on a running container.


On di, 2017-05-30 at 12:15 -0400, Ron Kelley wrote:
> While not a direct answer, I filled an enhancement bug recently for
> this 
> exact topic (incremental snapshots to remote server). The enhancement
> was 
> approved, but I don't know when it will be included in the next LXD
> version.
> 
> 
> On May 30, 2017 11:52:34 AM Kees Bos <cornelis.bos at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > Right now I'm using the sequence 'stop - move - start' for
> > migration of
> > containers (live migration fails too often).
> > 
> > The 'move' step can take some time. I wonder if it would be easy to
> > implement/do something like:
> >   - prepare move (e.g. take snapshot an copy upto snaphot)
> >   - stop
> >   - copy the rest
> >   - remove snapshot on dst
> >   - remove container from src
> >   - start container on dst
> > 
> > That would minimize downtime without the complexity of a live
> > migration.
> > 
> > What are your thoughts?
> > 
> > Kees
> > _______________________________________________
> > lxc-users mailing list
> > lxc-users at lists.linuxcontainers.org
> > http://lists.linuxcontainers.org/listinfo/lxc-users
>