@cemzafer Unfortunately, that only works if lxd is running. Right now, my lxd runs, but consumes 100% CPU. While I can list the containers, so far I haven’t been able to do anything else.
4.21 version does not include the patch to provide a progress indicator (see https://github.com/lxc/lxd/issues/9711) and exports take a long time. I will have no way to check whether the export is proceeding as it should.
@stgraber I have tried following the advice given here (“Lxc commands hang. Containers are not running”) and the query of the config table yields no output. I fear my lxd installation has been damaged. How can I recover it? EDIT: Okay, I see that that only applies to clusters; this was never run as a cluster. My next question would be: How can I recover the instances without having to run lxd?
(I should mention that this install originally used 4.0.8, the long-term support version. In an effort to get things working I “upgraded” to 4.21; that hasn’t solved anything so I’ve since reverted to 4.0.8. I’ve now backed up the entire lxd directory (with lxd stopped) using rsync so that I can troubleshoot safely.)