-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 On Wed, Nov 16, 2016 at 01:35:53PM -0800, pixel fairy wrote: > On Wednesday, November 16, 2016 at 2:12:37 PM UTC-5, Loren Rogers wrote: > > What's a good approach for regular backups? > > > > Does Qubes have a simple way of automatically saving VM snapshots? And, > > is there a way to do this incrementally? I assume not, since the > > encryption would block it? > > you can encrypt the volume and put snapshots on that. maybe the future of > qubes-backup? > > till then i use a script from dom0, > qvm-run backupkeeper "rm -rf QubesIncoming/*" > for i in `cat backuplist`;do qvm-run $i "qvm-copy-to-vm backupkeeper .";done > > then rdiff-backup QubesIncoming /run/media/user/.../backups/rdiff > > this way, the same drive can also keep appvm snapshots. > backupkeeper is just an appvm with no network access and a lot of space. the > usb disks are setup with cryptsetup, ext4 and a backups folder owned by user. > the first line is to get rid of old backups. qvm-copy-to-vm wont let you > overwrite. > > its no TimeMachine, and deleting and copying entire folders is inefficient. > but does the job and easy to recover on any linux system. > > would be nice to be able to initiate the file copy from dom0 and auto allow > it. then it could run in the background.
Actually you can "auto allow it". Simply click "Yes to all" during one backup run - it will add appropriate rule to policy to allow the same operation (same source and target VM) in the future without asking. - -- 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 iQEcBAEBCAAGBQJYLOWUAAoJENuP0xzK19cs3UAH/3CcPVZy9fTSCCI8r/8yR4i5 bx4Y6HDuNQeF3gYp18rsCKAc9U+iBZXMata+lHzN0htIRV3Uncv0orEdhlM7SBT/ 0d1mB5DN93hZid+H1MtHD6UmwL3mFhkcFo14kYcEYkQO72whBwMzSXIVd5g5iLmg m04+RGXt8fhEe1DoL0RcZj/Kcu3R4UxhJR0ODRl96K8n6bUEgfq8Y0SybmUqT9lz lx2SL1TTUVmNC8ZiMCMni8ckm84vxrPe3u3gCW6KzzO4IlEZG9ON4MCvXnSin/BK hL/IB2Jy/RkjU1MRa8uqKMCnxzTg3ueMKfqPCoJzTgGSTzZ/ZRzhNRJZOTiHuCw= =MNuy -----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/20161116230246.GB1145%40mail-itl. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
