-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 On Sun, Nov 20, 2016 at 07:02:28AM -0800, pixel fairy wrote: > On Sunday, November 20, 2016 at 8:07:58 AM UTC-5, Marek Marczykowski-Górecki > wrote: > > > This is risky. If one of your VMs is compromised, it may try to exploit > > some bug in filesystem handling code, or rsync, to steal data from other > > VMs. > > Handling this at block device level (so do not mount, but use /dev/xvdi > > as is) should be much safer. But then, you have qvm-backup tool which > > handle all this for you. The disadvantage (at least for now) is copy > > all the data each time - no support for incremental backups or such. > > what do you think of "qvm-copy-to-vm backupvm ." followed by rdiff-backup on > the backupvm to luks encrypted disks?
It's better, but personally I wouldn't do that either. > if you were using qubes-backup, how would you restore a single file or folder? Restore selected VM (under another name - it's done automatically), copy that single file to original VM, then remove restored VM. - -- 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 iQEcBAEBCAAGBQJYMb4cAAoJENuP0xzK19csAFQH/1Qb9VUHbFT9CSPMGfFmhpg7 CYSSMFZ7CkfJCnuMO3VfYJk4iACLbgBwfej5MWqnimgW5oihQdmXZ6q/qhuYmZjY MkLCvfKLcOtLMZaCjkFkPjrs8plYmmtovo8wRA89ji3L0JilnAgClQ0cc5wL7Cjb d5YFMAHemMiomWJx5pHAUJHS4hgbgXvH57Hx7OgObA8f4DTfQBXI18bVqGdgMnUK cdqze1lagALso+poNJG7p1IhJABb+FN30cTwTCwy9NudwnmQfRjShMaWKG7rXIXF H1wk9IQc5/PSo4eKlEj3h/ML/aHGlff6RQtBdO8bF4QdTVduLJfKI71CfBf6Lrw= =3S2/ -----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/20161120151537.GH1145%40mail-itl. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
