On Monday, 14 November 2016 18:52:27 UTC, pixel fairy wrote: > how do you attach an image file to an appvm? qvm-block -A <vm-name> <device-vm-name>:<file> for your purpose the file or volume can be in the backupvm. > > what would you recommend for for resizable, or ideally, automatically > resizing volume for this? lvm or btrfs but inside an image file in dom0 which kind of removes any advantage of resizable volumes. parsing partition tables and filesystem metadata in dom0 should be avoided.
> > the idea is to attach an image an appvm, rsync the data you want to backup. > then remount it in a dedicated backupvm which only runs rdiff-backup to an > external disk. that way, the backup is fast (rsync and rdiff) and is > protected from any malware trying to write to the past, and can be done > without having to shutdown any vm. you may get inconsistent backups. it would make sense to stop it temporarily in a consistent state and then send the private image from dom0 to the backupvm. this should work work full backups. partial backups would probably have to be done your way. -- 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/cc1d22b1-798e-4bcd-ad36-2cec5eb92dbc%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
