Recover a file from an LXC container that won't start

johnha

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Jan 1, 2018
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One of my debian containers refuses to start .. it may be related to the fact that I lost one of my proxmox server's drives (that kept CT and VM backups and LXC templates...)
anyway, the container won't start. I ran lxc-start -n 100 -F -l DEBUG -o /tmp/lxc-100.log and it gave me this output:
Bash:
lxc-start: 100: conf.c: run_buffer: 335 Script exited with status 1
lxc-start: 100: start.c: lxc_init: 861 Failed to run lxc.hook.pre-start for container "100"
lxc-start: 100: start.c: __lxc_start: 1944 Failed to initialize container "100"
lxc-start: 100: tools/lxc_start.c: main: 330 The container failed to start
lxc-start: 100: tools/lxc_start.c: main: 336 Additional information can be obtained by setting the --logfile and --logpriority options

I'm just wondering if there's any way to get inside the container to retrieve a couple files (oops didn't back them up, d'oh!).
 

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