lxc-checkpoint — checkpoint a container
Synopsis
Description
lxc-checkpoint checkpoints and restores containers.
Options
- -r, --restore
Restore the checkpoint for the container, instead of dumping it. This option is incompatible with -s.
- -D PATH, --checkpoint-dir=PATH
The directory to dump the checkpoint metadata.
- -s, --stop
Optionally stop the container after dumping. This option is incompatible with -r.
- -v, --verbose
Enable verbose criu logging.
- -d, --daemon
Restore the container in the background (this is the default). Only available when providing -r.
- -F, --foreground
Restore the container in the foreground. Only available when providing -r.
Common Options
These options are common to most of lxc commands.
- -?, -h, --help
Print a longer usage message than normal.
- --usage
Give the usage message
- -q, --quiet
mute on
- -P, --lxcpath=PATH
Use an alternate container path. The default is /var/lib/lxc.
- -o, --logfile=FILE
Output to an alternate log FILE. The default is no log.
- -l, --logpriority=LEVEL
-
Set log priority to LEVEL. The default log priority is
ERROR. Possible values are :FATAL,CRIT,WARN,ERROR,NOTICE,INFO,DEBUG.Note that this option is setting the priority of the events log in the alternate log file. It do not have effect on the ERROR events log on stderr.
- -n, --name=NAME
Use container identifier NAME. The container identifier format is an alphanumeric string.
- --rcfile=FILE
-
Specify the configuration file to configure the virtualization and isolation functionalities for the container.
This configuration file if present will be used even if there is already a configuration file present in the previously created container (via lxc-create).
- --version
Show the version number.
Examples
- lxc-checkpoint -n foo -D /tmp/checkpoint
Checkpoint the container foo into the directory /tmp/checkpoint.
- lxc-checkpoint -r -n foo -D /tmp/checkpoint
Restore the checkpoint from the directory /tmp/checkpoint.
See Also
lxc(7), lxc-create(1), lxc-copy(1), lxc-destroy(1), lxc-start(1), lxc-stop(1), lxc-execute(1), lxc-console(1), lxc-monitor(1), lxc-wait(1), lxc-cgroup(1), lxc-ls(1), lxc-info(1), lxc-freeze(1), lxc-unfreeze(1), lxc-attach(1), lxc.conf(5)