On 05/26/2016 11:35 PM, Niels Kobschätzki wrote: > Hi, Hi! > three questions: It appears to me (but I may be wrong) that you are new to Qubes. If you can, I suggest you take some time with an experimental installation. It took me nearly one month to wrap my head around the one-workstation-many-vm concept before being able to successfully move my main workstation to Qubes.
> 1) How do you handle dotfiles in Qubes? I.e. I want to use my > vim-settings across all my VMs and usually not only a dumped down vimrc > but also the plugins. The same for my fish-files and maybe some others. > In the past I used dotflies in conjunction with stow > (https://www.gnu.org/software/stow/). I guess I can forget about that? The filesystem of appVM is based on the filesystem from their template. On top of that, an overlay filesystem is added, as a separate disk (usually /dev/xvdb) on /rw. From /rw, a couple directories are reparsed on /home and /usr/local. tl;dr: everything in /home and /usr/local is personal to that appVM and will persist across reboots - the /rw filesystem, coming from /dev/xvdb, is an actual read-write filesystem. Everything else is "fake-rw", and will accept any modification but it will not be persisted - it will be lost across reboots. May be handy for testing installations before applying them to the template. So i don't think you will be able to use stow from everywhere in the system; you may want to keep as much as you can in your home directory, and maybe stow may help you there. Do remember that Qubes is a workstation OS, and started as a single-user workstation OS, so there will not be any other (interactive) users beyond the one you will be using; thus keeping everything in your home directory should not be a big problem. > 3) For my personal online-backup I am using SpiderOak. Do I see it > correctly, that I have to run several instances of the SpiderOak-client > to keep my files backed up? (The same for btsync when I want to sync > files from another VM than the one with the keepass-files). The best option is to have it set up in every appvm that needs backup, if you are going to store the copy away from the computer via network. If your backup are to be stored on a USB disk, you may want to use the integrated backup from dom0. -- Alex -- 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/2b6a57d3-afec-10f4-b5fc-c2860c512ce8%40gmx.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
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