vastai take snapshot

Schedule a snapshot of a running container and push it to your repo in a container registry

Usage

vastai take snapshot INSTANCE_ID --repo REPO --docker_login_user USER --docker_login_pass PASS[--container_registry REGISTRY] [--pause true|false]

Arguments

instance_id · string · required

instance_id of the container instance to snapshot

Options

--container_registry · string · default: "docker.io"

Container registry to push the snapshot to. Default will be docker.io

--repo · string

repo to push the snapshot to

--docker_login_user · string

Username for container registry with repo

--docker_login_pass · string

Password or token for container registry with repo

--pause · string · default: "true"

Pause container’s processes being executed by the CPU to take snapshot (true/false). Default will be true

Description

Takes a snapshot of a running container instance and pushes snapshot to the specified repository in container registry.

Use pause=true to pause the container during commit (safer but slower), or pause=false to leave it running (faster but may produce a filesystem- // safer snapshot).

Global Options

The following options are available for all commands:

Option	Description
--url URL	Server REST API URL
--retry N	Retry limit
--raw	Output machine-readable JSON
--explain	Verbose explanation of API calls
--api-key KEY	API key (defaults to ~/.config/vastai/vast_api_key)