# Host "evacuate"

**URL:** <https://forums.suse.com/t/host-evacuate/5808>\
**Category:** General\
**Created:** [March 10, 2017, 8:11am UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/host-evacuate/5808 "2017-03-10T08:11:15Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 8\
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**Author:** ![Robert\_Lachner](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/user_avatar/forums.suse.com/robert_lachner/32/1704_2.png) [@Robert\_Lachner](https://forums.suse.com/u/Robert_Lachner)\
**Post date:** [March 10, 2017, 8:11am UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/host-evacuate/5808/1 "2017-03-10T08:11:15Z")

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Hi,

i’ve seen theres a new function “evacuate” available on Hosts.

What exactly does it do ?

Can’t find anything about it in the docs.

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**Author:** ![vincent](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/user_avatar/forums.suse.com/vincent/32/7156_2.png) [@vincent](https://forums.suse.com/u/vincent)\
**Post date:** [March 10, 2017, 8:56am UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/host-evacuate/5808/2 "2017-03-10T08:56:31Z")

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Deactivates the host and deletes all non-infrastructure containers on it.

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**Author:** ![nthomson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/3d9bf3/32.png) [@nthomson](https://forums.suse.com/u/nthomson)\
**Post date:** [May 7, 2017, 4:49am UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/host-evacuate/5808/3 "2017-05-07T04:49:37Z")

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Does this have a corresponding API call or is it orchestrating existing API calls under the covers?

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**Author:** ![vincent](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/user_avatar/forums.suse.com/vincent/32/7156_2.png) [@vincent](https://forums.suse.com/u/vincent)\
**Post date:** [May 7, 2017, 7:14am UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/host-evacuate/5808/4 "2017-05-07T07:14:20Z")

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It’s an action; “View in API” on a resource will show you these sorts of things…

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**Author:** ![nthomson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/3d9bf3/32.png) [@nthomson](https://forums.suse.com/u/nthomson)\
**Post date:** [May 8, 2017, 5:24am UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/host-evacuate/5808/5 "2017-05-08T05:24:47Z")

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Sorry, I checked the API before posting but was looking at containers instead of hosts. Thanks for the reply.

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**Author:** ![gavargas](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/user_avatar/forums.suse.com/gavargas/32/2108_2.png) [@gavargas](https://forums.suse.com/u/gavargas)\
**Post date:** [July 28, 2017, 11:31pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/host-evacuate/5808/6 "2017-07-28T23:31:41Z")

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hey @vincent is there a way that one can backup the existing stacks?

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**Author:** ![vincent](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/user_avatar/forums.suse.com/vincent/32/7156_2.png) [@vincent](https://forums.suse.com/u/vincent)\
**Post date:** [July 29, 2017, 3:14am UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/host-evacuate/5808/7 "2017-07-29T03:14:33Z")

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Evacuate doesn’t remove stacks or services, only the container instances of them running on the host.

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**Author:** ![gavargas](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/user_avatar/forums.suse.com/gavargas/32/2108_2.png) [@gavargas](https://forums.suse.com/u/gavargas)\
**Post date:** [July 29, 2017, 3:18am UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/host-evacuate/5808/8 "2017-07-29T03:18:24Z")

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Nice, thank you very much sir!