> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA512 > > On 2016-09-19 13:36, johnyju...@sigaint.org wrote: >>> I've finally got Qubes set up in a way I'm comfortable working every >>> day. >>> >>> Now I wanted to move that same installation to another drive for its >>> permanent home. >> >> Oh, I also meant to ask this: >> >> Does all of the Template/VM state live in /var/lib/qubes? Obviously the >> machines' disks do, and it appears that the metadata associated with >> them >> lives in /var/lib/qubes/qubes.xml (not human readable, tho'). >> >> Is this correct? If I do a fresh install of Qubes, and (with no VM's >> running) bring over my whole /var/lib/qubes directory from another >> installation, reboot, would I be good to go? Or are there other subtle >> things in dom0's root drive that would be out of kilter? >> > > I'm not sure whether this would work (never tried it). If possible, I'd > recommend using the built-in backup/restore system instead. This is the > recommended way to migrate to a fresh installation. > > https://www.qubes-os.org/doc/backup-restore/
Understood. I just find the backup/restore painfully slow as compared to a quick (and incremental, as I work) rsync. And I did try to do the backup/restore thing, but my destination drive had some partitions on it I wanted to preserve (as mentioned), and I just couldn't get the layout I wanted (partition->luks->lvm->swap/root, plus a sda1 bios boot). I guess I'll move those three existing encrypted partitions (1.5T, ugh) to another drive (external USB, blah), do a fresh stock install of Qubes, then copy those partitions back. See ya in a week or two. :P I'll probably toy around with (and study up on) grub/dracut/luks/crypttab/initrd a bit more first, though, since I'm so close. A little more debugging might do the trick. I have a perfect image of the old encrypted swap/root and bios boot partitions on the new drive. So it's just a matter of the right grub/dracut magic. So close, to avoid a couple of days of copying. If I do find the magic tweak to make systemd roll along further, I will follow up here. JJ -- 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/8380b617dfdff766d79a0ba3cc25488b.webmail%40localhost. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
