Table of Contents

• DESCRIPTION
• SNAPSHOT
  • Create
  • Restore
• BACKUP/RESTORE
  • Backup
  • Restore
    • From Image
    • From Export
  • MOVING FILES INTO CONTAINER
    • Mount
    • Push

DESCRIPTION ¶

Commands to snapshot, backup and restore Crostini Linux containers on ChromeOS.

SNAPSHOT ¶

Create ¶

lxc snapshot sens <LABEL>
lxc snapshot sens backup-snapshot

Restore ¶

Destroy and re-create the container.

lxc restore setns <LABEL>

BACKUP/RESTORE ¶

Create a full backup image.

Backup ¶

• create the backup image

lxc publish setns --alias backup

• list images

lxc image list

• export to tarball

lxc image export backup $LXD_CONF/backup

Restore ¶

From Image ¶

lxc delete setns

# lxc init <image name> <container name>
lxc init backup setns

From Export ¶

lxc image import $LXD_CONF/backups/backup.tar.gz --alias backup

MOVING FILES INTO CONTAINER ¶

Mount ¶

lxc config device add unveil lxd-conf disk source=$LXD_CONF path=/mnt/lxd_conf

Push ¶

Limited by the amount of diskspace in /tmp:

lxc file push $LXD_CONF/backup.tar.gz unveil/home/msantos/backup.tar.gz

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