Welcome to CRIU, a project to implement checkpoint/restore functionality for Linux in userspace.
This wiki
- Usage scenarios
- Ideas how crtools can be used (some are crazy indeed)
- CR tools
- Main checkpoint/restore utility
- ZDTM
- Zero downtime test suite
- TODO
- Current TODO list
- What software is supported
- Describes TODO list in higher level terms
- Commits
- Mainline kernel commits tracker
- Images
- Description of image files format
External links
- 2026-12-18, Transparent and Unified CPU-GPU Snapshots for LLM Inference Platforms
- 2026-11-16, Parallel Restore-Optimized Snapshot Compression for Cost-Efficient Inference Serving
- 2026-09-21, Fast Recovery for LLM Serving via Decoupled Device Memory Lifetime in Dynamo
- 2026-07-22, Forensic Analysis of Container Snapshot Chains for Post-event Reconstruction
- 2026-07-14, Accelerating Model Inference with On‑the‑Fly Snapshot Compression