[lxc-users] How to lxc-copy running container?

[Marat Khalili]

Dear all,
good time of the day,

I'm testing package upgrades of an LXC container by making a copy of it 
and running upgrade in a copy. However, for some reason lxc-copy (at 
least in 2.0.8) refuses to copy running container. Is there some 
workaround for it other than replacing lxc-copy with manual operations? 
Does it make sense to ask developers for some --force switch?

(I understand that in some cases copying running container can damage 
the copy (but never the original), but when the only mutable data in 
root filesystem is logs it should be perfectly OK, stopping services and 
disconnecting clients is unjustified.)

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With Best Regards,
Marat Khalili