-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512 Something for the btrfs crowd:
A small qvm-backup wrapper script that handles running VMs by chrooting into a temporary dom0 filesystem snapshot. The backed up data is the same as if those VMs had just been killed, which seems to work fine for the usual journaling/copy-on-write VM filesystems. https://github.com/rustybird/qubes-stuff/blob/master/dom0/bin/qvm-backup-snap Also pasted below. POC, may ruin absolutely everything, etc. Rusty #!/usr/bin/sudo sh # # qvm-backup wrapper that can handle running VMs stored on btrfs dom0. # Usage: qvm-backup-snap <qvm-backup argument>... set -e tmp=$(mktemp -ud /var/tmp/qubes-backup-snap.XXXXXX) btrfs subvolume snapshot / "$tmp" trap 'btrfs subvolume delete "$tmp"' EXIT sed -e 's/^\( *\)if vm.is_running():$/\1if False:/' \ -i "$tmp"/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/qubes/backup.py for d in /dev /dev/shm /proc /run; do mount --bind $d "$tmp"/$d; done chroot "$tmp" su -s /usr/bin/qvm-backup - "$SUDO_USER" -- "$@" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQJ8BAEBCgBmBQJYqu8RXxSAAAAAAC4AKGlzc3Vlci1mcHJAbm90YXRpb25zLm9w ZW5wZ3AuZmlmdGhob3JzZW1hbi5uZXQ4NEI1OUJDRkM2MkIxMjlGRTFCMDZEMDQ0 NjlENzhGNDdBQUYyQURGAAoJEEadePR6ryrf8v0QAI4eRTXSAkHAbL3+Z3K94nbU aEaG0YzyMA6r9byo8idpsvuR/gMPhrcLiBdB+bvlMRuQ8tx1GH/8YnGVdb3/8ccr QcrDAv9abWOUbCRbLxP6cckE7pNYwBys7DQVqkMvN3irkxHnNWGjtczMbJJ+B+gi R+LxYXJnz4Hn6392HXSqbAv1PPyNGymYLqSJfzH30pdvTt6QICjOH4DHH5yfGRqx o3iablnBb9EmbSCa8Fn8mdtu/CcP58QgVwUrGA2Y15JE2ViAS2EVpxX5Ah+e0RpC WzjJC9t73SI8/1549BvxHMf5aInJbXBmn/hbmpTTnFacRkXn7aPSvA7dUZrQvhqP FcCYlBZ6LO2H1rxpcaI7/ppLaqNwjzuXs6OW6Luw96k2yaR+iI5N4JCIhHUFagBR 2KaU2wTi4yKNJD9ZD0lGCpjDLdpECrDKHHC56ZRawYQS8JwUkjF7vwD2UJTzT7HN r6pQR11lpSgdbbWAdqQxH2VKFX6bwEN4gvl52VG7B6+/hTMb5PdXMp/2h+gI1biK Lw0roF9QyYMmP96JWXtAoO0eC1IhGVDVqR+3kGXFRwxrkQCrZP/jt+fSllYpAWZp JfWNoB38rZpqNyZdOEGC4Odw0iiw7BeSKeRuCDhWiSJkeCUtVyohZI7rXNLcCKdV fIYc8ix5g9B1gQbFYJNd =imFn -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "qubes-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to qubes-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to qubes-users@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/qubes-users/20170220132849.GA1885%40mutt. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.