-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512 On 2016-09-27 06:59, 'Gabriel' via qubes-users wrote: > Hi fellows, > > I started using qubes a while ago and I have a question concerning backups. > What I want is a complete backup to a dedicated external USB HDD. I > understand to achieve this all the VMs must be shut down. > Therefore when I plugged in the HDD I mounted it in dom0 under /mnt. >
This is fine as long as you trust the USB device you're attaching to dom0. If you don't, consider using a USB qube instead: https://www.qubes-os.org/doc/usb/#creating-and-using-a-usb-qube > Questions: > 1. When I ran Qubes VM Manager -> Backup VMs, I received an error message > stating no place on device and a zero byte backup file. Permissions are OK, > there's more than enough space on the HDD. > Any reasons why the backup did not succeed? > Are you sure you selected the correct device in the menu? > 2. I tried running qvm-backup from the command line, which ran fine, no > permission problems on the same HDD. However, the template VMs are not > included by default and I saw no command-line option to automatically achieve > this. Am I missing something here? > The RPM-managed TemplateVMs should normally not be backed up. Instead, you should clone them (if you can spare the drive space), make your customizations, then back up the clones. > 3. I know I can manually list all the VMs on the command line to be backed > up, but I find that a bit awkward, so I tried this: > qvm-ls --raw-list | xargs qvm-backup /mnt/test/ > > but this threw a Python exception... > > For now I resorted to typing all the VMs by hand ... not elegant. > > Any help is appreciated. > Try this: $ qvm-backup /mnt/test/ `qvm-ls --raw-list` You can also prepare a list of VMs (one VM name per line) as a file, then: $ qvm-backup /mnt/test/ `cat vm_list.txt` - -- Andrew David Wong (Axon) Community Manager, Qubes OS https://www.qubes-os.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQIcBAEBCgAGBQJX6rLjAAoJENtN07w5UDAwuJQQAMu+Wfr56Bmf6bmJVCrZWY76 ZosTo+0ouB7jBYcoplACyirVmXjhFK3G9AFKRnpNZ3qo7m9w3rWD6cgbYwv88yfW nTJZBV88xqQqLGjqz3+OCi84/sfpOgIC8tXhzZndKcGb+5yd0FxRgZhZg4shdJ4d DoBX2hAfwzaUG9FCH7spaIFE5XPeOXNlK+ft5kuhbstWxGsFz7plf1ibrRii+Z2U DNamPVhAD6x4/cIzakb57SJ4BWcDoCuyeeG0ICpHyTjEMBq3GH0pvt4bVsSIWUC8 3LrUYAkuKrtxeSBHuJ0eAMilpkz9rld8tl58FUiMW1ZkanSYYB/GV8ENhAruFvVL bvlgJ0vsOBg1FRXGC8LUUsXiw2owUP4z7Dgtl3Q5eZ+Zb1K/OAdbnmrkXbu/PpiR E50qQig/Ugxlg9XDdWCgANfFRfhdi2btA+qfP7aSJt+0Kf60GxmQtUGbHm+Q0ECP L03ZEFG33K/3xu26CFXjWQRwlFGMAAUF5BEiFuLDJ96rhwU5blHjV/lZ1e1rEyv1 uRjdJ06slyv78uLanqIXyMqH1nXBlu/RyayrqTJW1Jdo0GX3iSoF7SR1A8zPbf3r 3d/PmRfY2/1/okIcFYc0tkqq9fTvi0M+ixVIdPmYzoVuzsiP/y5tBM+7CT5YxY+q 0KnOMeWlDzFguSEdha+e =KRMx -----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 [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/qubes-users/d7357dd5-7283-2368-17c0-2f88113418dc%40qubes-os.org. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
