Quoting Andy Johnson ([email protected]): > Hello, > I an newbie to lxc snapshoting. > > I use latest git lxc, built with --disable-python. > I created the container with btrfs backing store. > > I tried creating a snapshot with lxc-scnapshot, and got > ... > lxc_container: error: Original container (fedoraBtrfs) is running > lxc_container: clone of /container:fedoraBtrfs failed > ... > > My question is: should I stop the container with lxc-stop before > running lxc-snapshot ?
Yes. We might want to consider allowing a clone (and hence snapshot) when the container is frozen. Right now the check is explicitly for c->is_stopped(). Not sure if there would be unsafe cases of that, but I would think it should be ok. -serge _______________________________________________ lxc-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.linuxcontainers.org/listinfo/lxc-users
