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# cedana freeze

Freeze a container/process

## Options

```
  -h, --help   help for freeze
```

## Options inherited from parent commands

```
      --address string          address to use (host:port for TCP, path for UNIX, cid:port for VSOCK)
      --config string           one-time config JSON string (merge with existing config)
      --config-dir string       custom config directory
      --init-config             initialize config file with defaults and env var overrides
      --merge-config            same as --init-config but does not overwrite existing config file, only merges new values into it
      --profiling               enable profiling/show profiling data
      --profiling-path string   path to write profiling JSON to (if enabled)
      --protocol string         protocol to use (TCP, UNIX, VSOCK)
```

## SEE ALSO

* [cedana](/daemon/references/cli/cedana.md) - Root command for Cedana
* [cedana freeze containerd](https://github.com/cedana/cedana/tree/main/docs/references/cli/cedana_freeze_containerd.md) - Freeze a containerd container
* [cedana freeze crun](https://github.com/cedana/cedana/tree/main/docs/references/cli/cedana_freeze_crun.md) - Freeze a crun container
* [cedana freeze job](https://github.com/cedana/cedana/tree/main/docs/references/cli/cedana_freeze_job.md) - Freeze a managed process/container (job)
* [cedana freeze process](https://github.com/cedana/cedana/tree/main/docs/references/cli/cedana_freeze_process.md) - Freeze a process
* [cedana freeze runc](https://github.com/cedana/cedana/tree/main/docs/references/cli/cedana_freeze_runc.md) - Freeze a runc container