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== Data deduplication ==
 
== Data deduplication ==
  
After creation of such stack of images some data would get duplication in dumps. If you don't want to keep duplicates there's an ability to punch duplicate data from non-top images. There are two options for this.
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See [[memory images deduplication]].
 
 
=== Deduplication action ===
 
The <code>criu dedup</code> command opens the image directory and punch holes in the ''parent'' images where ''child'' images would replace them.
 
 
 
=== Automatic deduplication while dumping ===
 
The <code>--auto-dedup</code> option would cause every write to images with process' pages to go an punch holes in respective parent images.
 
 
 
This option applies to both <code>dump</code> and <code>page-server</code> actions and thus is extremely useful in [[disk-less migration]] scenario.
 
  
 
== See also ==
 
== See also ==

Revision as of 04:20, 31 August 2016

Tools-spanner-hammer.svg FIXME: describe why incr. dumps are needed, and when to use pre-dump (iterative migration) instead of incr. dumps.

If you're doing several dumps in a row, the 2nd and subsequent dumps can be sped up. Here's how:

Create the first dump

# mkdir -p <path-to-images>/1/
# criu dump --tree <pid> --images-dir <path-to-images>/1/ --leave-running --track-mem
  • Images are put into the 1/ sub-directory, since we're about to create the 2nd (and more) incremental dumps and it's handy to store them in this way;
  • The --leave-running option is used to make criu not kill the tasks after dump, but let them run further;
  • The --track-mem option makes criu ask kernel to monitor memory changes to optimize the subsequent dump.

Create the second dump

# mkdir <path-to-images>/2/
# criu dump --tree <pid> --images-dir <path-to-images>/2/ --leave-running --track-mem --prev-images-dir ../1/
  • Note, that the --prev-images-dir path is relative to the --images-dir one;
  • Similarly the 3rd and all the other dumps can be created.

Create the last dump

# mkdir <path-to-images>/N/
# criu dump --tree <pid> --images-dir <path-to-images>/N/ --track-mem --prev-images-dir ../N-1/
  • No --leave-running option will make tasks be killed after dump;
  • No need in memory tracking option.

Restore

Now you can restore the processes from whatever images you want

# criu restore --images-dir <path-to-images>/ANY/
Note.svg Note: After each (but the last) dump tasks continue running and thus can modify filesystem. CRIU does not snapshot filesystem and assumes, that proper filesystem state for restore is provided by a user.

Data deduplication

See memory images deduplication.

See also