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NAME | SYNOPSIS | DESCRIPTION | OPTIONS | COMMON OPTIONS | EXAMPLES | SEE ALSO | COLOPHON |
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lxc-checkpoint(1) lxc-checkpoint(1)
lxc-checkpoint - checkpoint a container
lxc-checkpoint {-n name} {-D PATH} [-r] [-s] [-v] [-d] [-F]
lxc-checkpoint checkpoints and restores containers.
-r, --restore
Restore the checkpoint for the container, instead of dump‐
ing 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 de‐
fault). Only available when providing -r.
-F, --foreground
Restore the container in the foreground. Only available
when providing -r.
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 ER‐
ROR. 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 virtualiza‐
tion 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 previ‐
ously created container (via lxc-create).
--version
Show the version number.
lxc-checkpoint -n foo -D /tmp/checkpoint
Checkpoint the container foo into the directory /tmp/check‐
point.
lxc-checkpoint -r -n foo -D /tmp/checkpoint
Restore the checkpoint from the directory /tmp/checkpoint.
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)
This page is part of the lxc (Linux containers) project. Informa‐
tion about the project can be found at
⟨http://linuxcontainers.org/⟩. If you have a bug report for this
manual page, send it to [email protected]. This
page was obtained from the project's upstream Git repository
⟨https://github.com/lxc/lxc.git⟩ on 2025-08-11. (At that time,
the date of the most recent commit that was found in the
repository was 2025-07-29.) If you discover any rendering
problems in this HTML version of the page, or you believe there is
a better or more up-to-date source for the page, or you have
corrections or improvements to the information in this COLOPHON
(which is not part of the original manual page), send a mail to
[email protected]
2024-04-03 lxc-checkpoint(1)
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