-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 On Sat, Jun 04, 2016 at 06:42:12PM +0200, Doesnt Work wrote: > Hello! > > My basic problem: > I'd like to backup some of my files from AppVMs incrementally with > duplicity. Some of them (vault, ...) don't have network access. I > believe I don't have enough free HDD-space to keep the update within the > AppVM and copy every update to a network-enabled AppVM. (apart from > that, it would take quite long. > > My current solution: > Plug in a Thumb-Drive, start first AppVM to be backuped, attach it to > the AppVM, run duplicity, detach thumbdrive, shutdown AppVM, rinse and > repeat with other AppVMs that need to be backuped. > In theory, this should be possible with a script in dom0, but currently > I do it manually. It works fine. > Finally, the thumbdrive is attached to an AppVM with network access and > the whole backup uploaded via sftp. (I want to have a local and off-site > backup anyway, so uploading a huge file isn't that big of a deal for me.) > > What I want to achieve: > A virtual block device, which I can attach/detach programatically, so I > don't need to attach a regular thumbdrive. > > I've tried to create a virtual blockdevice: > > dd if=/dev/zero of=~/backup.img > > losetup --find --partscan --show bakup.img > > mkfs.fat /dev/loop19 > > but it doesn't show up in qvm-block -l. > > So I don't know weather it's easier to tell qubes "This is a USB > device!" (how?) or tell qubes to attach this loop device to an AppVM. > (Again, how? I was thinking about creating a virtual PCI-device, though > I'd still have to google weather that's possible.)
Take a look at qvm-block --attach-file (qvm-block -A). - -- Best Regards, Marek Marczykowski-Górecki Invisible Things Lab A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iQEcBAEBCAAGBQJXU17VAAoJENuP0xzK19csUnUIAJWyFvkwbLidBbfugAk951uR Dsl8zu0Gj3hCdXIy+bu/c1O/RkWw6Dq8dHA+L9qLqKeq5NtiIjBemeG2uaXKrRv9 yjBH9Tqvbr+s19NbcQD5eUVTMdSr1djvPeSKTr5eoO3YxGh88aZIq9LMo6p3nzKc zhBGHecOHG/enYuz43EPgnJFxA74MwN98Ymt5WEnVN8X+8rbNqR5e0vmnE0hEa+k ZkPkGR333b4GO22hV5+TE333QgWKNRpQv6M7wnbOm1HIzZRbefFejvD+HXivBaSv 7+OBSlFTKKeXiLigSeKzeVell54f7Zag/b6S1HYGHPu53+Dzjmdyhvc/WSeV8sw= =PiBh -----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/20160604230556.GA10391%40mail-itl. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
