Comment on Trouble moving a container and its data to another server
Natal@lemmy.world 11 months agoI thought so, too. I played around with the tar idea and it led me to discover the permissions are wrong on the original computer. I have added new info on the main post about it but basically the owner is “user:70” and I have no idea where that comes from. I tried using CHOWN to reset everything to my own user, which is the same on both computers (1000:1000 uidguid), but whenever I restart the container, it locks again.
OneCardboardBox@lemmy.sdf.org 11 months ago
The user and group id inside the container doesn’t have to match any user on your host machine. It’s possible that user:70 is configured as the user to launch inside the container, in which case you should set the ownership of the directory to match what the container expects.
Eg: The container for my torrent client runs as user 700 group 700. My host machine does not have either of those IDs defined. My torrent directory must be chown’d by 700:700 or else the container can’t read/write torrents.