devcontainers - large download everytime

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Peterkneale
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Everytime i open a devcontainer it downloads the 1GB IDE backend to install which takes about 5-10 minutes. Is it possible to cache this locally so that I dont have to wait this long every time I open a dev container. VsCode devcontainers are almost instant by comparison.

```Downloading the IDE Backend on the remote host… 6% · 0.07 GB/1.07 GB · 618.5 kB/s```

 

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Olga Mulina
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Hello, Peterkneale. 

Please note that the IDE backends are stored in the volume in your Docker instance. If you use the same Docker instance every time, the reason for the problem could be the default setting that instructs the IDE to download the most recent backend version available. You can disable the Choose the backend version automatically option in the Settings | Advanced Settings window.

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