[lxc-users] How to copy "manually" a container ?

[Pierre Couderc]

On 08/23/2018 09:24 AM, Fajar A. Nugraha wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 23, 2018 at 2:07 PM, Pierre Couderc <pierre at couderc.eu 
> <mailto:pierre at couderc.eu>> wrote:
>
>     On 08/23/2018 07:37 AM, Tamas Papp wrote:
>
>
>         On 08/23/2018 05:36 AM, Pierre Couderc wrote:
>
>             If for any reason, "lxc copy" does not work, is it enough
>             to copy (rsync) /var/lib/lxd/containers/xxxx to another
>             lxd on another computer in /var/lib/lxd/containers/ ?
>
>
>         Copy the folder (watch out rsync flags) to
>         /var/lib/lxd/storage-pools/default/containers/, symlink to
>         /var/lib/lxd/containers and run 'lxd import'.
>
>     Thank you very much. It nearlu worked.
>     Anyway, it fails (in this case) because :
>     Error: The storage pool's "default" driver "dir" conflicts with
>     the driver "btrfs" recorded in the container's backup file
>
>
> If you know how lxd use btrfs to create the container storage (using 
> subvolume?), you can probably create it manually, and rsync there.
>
> Or you can create another storage pool, but backed by dir (e.g. 'lxc 
> storage create pool2 dir') instead of btrfs/zfs.
>
> Or yet another way:
> - create a new container
> - take note where its storage is (e.g. by looking at mount options, 
> "df -h", etc)
> - shutdown the container
> - replace the storage with the one you need to restore
>
> -- 
> Fajar
>
Thank you, I think to that.
But what is sure is that my "old" container is labelled as btrfs and 
after rsync on a "non btrfs" volume, the btrfs label remains....

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