-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 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)... - -- 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 iQEcBAEBCAAGBQJYM1X+AAoJENuP0xzK19csjaUH/1oRgLtiG8Wplrd5737QpOl8 wxsrgR9lM3tt6lj8sRPOz6SlxBASewcBsmIcXNFUAqnZu11Fg/lb8NujngI1oxcf POYYTDLFcZkHK2mhkrRxXiTfrwm9/cfFMye2mQSzA9KxfuoPltKJqCQmgSqVMb+n T96l/9vA7p0m4OCjzs4/Ra9zXqctctLYbxCI8DcCxnpEW5yDptFtAIdnp454lGPF eIZPrloznEutN0OXZ58yHOP8DMx0QfnzAh7qCixUf0ZL3Gecp+wrpBcMG8q/of7P GU/MSN/RYnaOFDULeAocowCgvfRLYyL6iU73FGVrQtYsHjfsJnwgNccVSwD8m4U= =DHGj -----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/20161121201556.GO1145%40mail-itl. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
