<div dir="ltr"><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-bottom:16px;color:rgb(36,41,46);font-family:-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,"Segoe UI",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif,"Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji";font-size:14px;margin-top:0px">Is it possible to do incremental checkpointing in <code style="box-sizing:border-box;font-family:SFMono-Regular,Consolas,"Liberation Mono",Menlo,monospace;font-size:11.9px;padding:0.2em 0.4em;margin:0px;background-color:rgba(27,31,35,0.05);border-radius:6px">runc</code> with full <code style="box-sizing:border-box;font-family:SFMono-Regular,Consolas,"Liberation Mono",Menlo,monospace;font-size:11.9px;padding:0.2em 0.4em;margin:0px;background-color:rgba(27,31,35,0.05);border-radius:6px">dumps</code>?<br style="box-sizing:border-box">In criu, we can do incremental checkpoints by doing</p><pre style="box-sizing:border-box;font-family:SFMono-Regular,Consolas,"Liberation Mono",Menlo,monospace;font-size:11.9px;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:16px;padding:16px;overflow:auto;line-height:1.45;background-color:rgb(246,248,250);border-radius:6px;color:rgb(36,41,46)"><code style="box-sizing:border-box;font-family:SFMono-Regular,Consolas,"Liberation Mono",Menlo,monospace;padding:0px;margin:0px;background:initial;border-radius:6px;word-break:normal;border:0px;display:inline;overflow:visible;line-height:inherit">criu dump --tree <pid> --images-dir <path-to-existing-directory-B> \
--prev-images-dir <path-to-directory-A-relative-to-B> --leave-stopped --track-mem
</code></pre><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-top:0px;color:rgb(36,41,46);font-family:-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,"Segoe UI",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif,"Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji";font-size:14px;margin-bottom:0px">from the help option of runc, it says we can use<br style="box-sizing:border-box"><code style="box-sizing:border-box;font-family:SFMono-Regular,Consolas,"Liberation Mono",Menlo,monospace;font-size:11.9px;padding:0.2em 0.4em;margin:0px;background-color:rgba(27,31,35,0.05);border-radius:6px">--parent-path value path for previous criu image files in pre-dump option</code> but in case of pre-dumps only, Is there similar thing in runc which can do incremental checkpointing with full dumps also?</p></div>