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dicer instance snapshot

dicer instance snapshot

Freeze instances to disk and put them back

Synopsis

A snapshot holds a guest’s memory, its device state and a copy of its overlay disk, so restoring resumes it exactly where it was.

dicer instance snapshot [flags]

Options 

  -h, --help   help for snapshot

Options inherited from parent commands 

  -D, --debug              Trace every call to the daemon on stderr (or set $DICER_DEBUG)
  -r, --remote string      Daemon to talk to: a remote's name, or an address (unix:///PATH or HOST:PORT) (default $DICER_REMOTE, then the current remote, then local)
      --timeout duration   Give up on a call to the daemon after this long, e.g. 30s (0: never; streams such as logs -f and exec are not bounded)

SEE ALSO

dicer instance showdicer instance snapshot create