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Expand Up @@ -82,3 +82,16 @@ The live restore option only pertains to standalone containers, and not to Swarm
services. Swarm services are managed by Swarm managers. If Swarm managers are
not available, Swarm services continue to run on worker nodes but can't be
managed until enough Swarm managers are available to maintain a quorum.

Live restore and Swarm mode are mutually exclusive. You can't enable live
restore on a node that's part of a Swarm: when both are enabled, the daemon
refuses to start and exits with the following error:

```console
failed to start cluster component: --live-restore daemon configuration is incompatible with swarm mode
```

To start the daemon again, disable live restore in the daemon configuration.
Removing the node from the Swarm isn't enough: the node keeps its local Swarm
state, so the daemon still fails this check. To take the node out of the Swarm,
disable live restore first, start the daemon, and then run `docker swarm leave`.