#!/bin/bash pct mount $1 # number of LXC CTR exit; First, mount the LXC filesystems on the Proxmox host (LXC does not need to be running, but can be). Use `pct mount xxx` for each LXC. It will tell you the mount point, but it will be /var/lib/lxc/xxx/rootfs. Now you can manipulate the files in the LXC from the Proxmox host. This includes all mount points of the LXC overlaid properly. Next, use `rsync` to copy the files from one LXC to another using the full path to both rootfs`s. Finally, recursively chown the files with a uid/gid offset of 100000 (the offset used by unprivilaged LXCs). Root in the container (uid 0) is uid 100000 on host. I would just `chown -R 100000:100000` the entire directory you just copied, so it`s accessible as root in the container, and then go into the container and fix permissions within the container as container root (using `chown -R user:group`) When you are done, `pct unmount xxx`. # REF: https://www.reddit.com/r/Proxmox/comments/1ch6555/most_efficient_way_to_copy_data_from_privileged/