Ixc image publishing on root partition instead LVM pool

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Hi! I have LVM thin pool on my server(srv1) which use for lxc containers.

When i create a backup containers i use

lxc snapshot name_container
lxc publish name_container/name_snapshot
lxc image export name_image to the backup disks (large storage)

a few days ago my server is broken, but i have a backups
i restore my backups on another server(srv2) with DIR storage instead lvm and all OK.

yesterday i repair my first server(srv1) and setup lvm and lxd
I create lxc lvm pool, pushing containers from srv2 to srv1 and started it - all ok

when i start backup script, my root partition (/) on srv1 growing when containers publishing
i have on root partirion only 50gb free space and and backup script failed, because image of container bigger than free space on root /

BUT, when srv1 has been not broken (week ago) i see my root partition is clear when i backup containers every night. I don’t know where is stores images, but i exactly know my root partition is not growing at all

Why publishing image go to the /var/lib/lxd/images instead /var/lib/lxd/storage_pools/images?

Can i configure publishing images to the LVM storage pool instead default location?

How to change local LXD image store - to storage pool image store

I asked because it’s works on my srv1 (week ago)

reason of broking my srv1 is metedata on lvm pool 100% maybe images are published in metedata all time? and it’s overspaced? I don’t know

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There are configuration options now to choose where image and backup tarballs are stored.
Look for storage.backups_volume and storage.images_volume in https://linuxcontainers.org/lxd/docs/master/server

Those two types of artifact are global and so aren’t normally tied to a storage pool, but due to many systems being setup in the way you described, it’s now possible to use a custom storage volume from any available storage pool to hold those rather than keep them on the root device.

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Okay, thank you for the answer.

I create a symlink to the another place (in which more space)

ln -s /var/lib/lxd/images /another place

In lxd docs i see the command “lxc export” ( tar ball without publish step)
I have lxd 3.0.3 in which do not have this command. In which version lxd this command will do work?

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Not sure exactly when we introduced that, but yeah, it’s not in the 3.0.x series, if you switch to the current feature release (3.18), you’ll have it.