Restored Container From Non Native Backup, How to Copy Container Config from Source?

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This is unofficial way, but in this case you can use lxd recover command on backups’ target directory.

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`lxd recover` as a non-interactive command for specific container recoveries

Hi @tomp , before the release of the new disaster recovery tool I used the import command lxd import foo --force to import containers inside my restore-scripts that sync’ed the data beforehand by rsync into the appropriate directory. In this restore-process the container name foo might have been changed from the original name with intension. For example to setup a test environment from a rsync backup of a production environment with a different container name. It would be great to extend lx…

You can look at the backup.yaml file, which stores the necessary configuration data.

IMHO this is a useful (alternative) solution when you already have a backup or manage a large volume of data.