[Users] how can i easily replicate a container?

[Scott Dowdle]

Rene,

----- Original Message -----
> Sometimes it's useful to replicate a container, for example for
> testing.  It seems very quick to make a snapshot using vzctl chkpnt,
> but is there a way to restore this as a new container?

I haven't worked with ploop-based containers so maybe it is different for them... but with a non-ploop container... to duplicate it... all you have to do is copy the container filesystem (preferably while it isn't running) and config... then edit the config to a make the new container unique... and then start the new container.  Each time a container is started, its settings in the config (hostname, ip address, disk quota, nameserver, etc) are injected into the filesystem and then it is started.

TYL,
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