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On Sun, Nov 20, 2016 at 09:13:36PM -0800, pixel fairy wrote:
> On Sunday, November 20, 2016 at 10:15:44 AM UTC-5, Marek Marczykowski-Górecki 
> wrote:
> 
> > > 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.
> 
> how would you do incremental backups? would lvm/btrfs/zfs snapshots on the 
> backup volume work?

Impossible right now. Some ideas:
https://github.com/QubesOS/qubes-issues/issues/858

> > > 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.
> 
> just tried that, it complained that there was already a vm of the same name. 
> did you mean to rename the original and then restore the old name? 

There is qvm-backup-restore --rename-conflicting option. It isn't
available in GUI unfortunately...

> it would be nice to have it offer to restore foo to foo_backup-NNNN with out 
> networking and maybe even start the file browser or shell

There is tight limit on VM name length (31 chars)...

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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?
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