lxc-checkpoint - Man Page
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,- ALERT,- CRIT,- WARN,- ERROR,- NOTICE,- INFO,- DEBUG,- TRACE.- 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)