canic-cli

Operator CLI for Canic backup and restore workflows.

The initial command focuses on snapshot capture/download planning and execution for a canister plus its registry-discovered children.

canic snapshot download \
  --canister <canister-id> \
  --root <root-canister-id> \
  --include-children \
  --out backups/<run-id> \
  --dry-run

Use --recursive instead of --include-children to include all descendants. Use --registry-json <file> to plan from a saved canic_subnet_registry response instead of querying a live root.

DFX only creates snapshots for stopped canisters. Pass --stop-before-snapshot --resume-after-snapshot when the CLI should perform that local lifecycle step around each captured artifact.