Taring and moving LXC containers from one physical enviornment to the next

Often in research environment, it is necessary to move clusters of Linux containers (LXCs) from one machine to one or move machines.

Here's a thread on the LXC users list that has some basic information which may help avoid surprising permission changes in the local file system of an LXC as it is moved.

http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=30535949