-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512 On 2016-12-25 20:08, mojosam wrote: > How to Backup Qubes Using New USB Hard Drive > > I'd like to backup my VMs to an external USB hard drive. I have a > couple of questions not answered by these pages: > > <https://www.qubes-os.org/doc/backup-restore/> and > <https://www.qubes-os.org/doc/usb/> > > The drive is a new Seagate 1.5TB hard drive. It's a tiny thing > that gets its power off of the USB bus. Apparently Seagate has > already installed their backup program, which runs in both Mac and > Windows. > > If I'm going to use this drive, I assume that I want to delete > that program and any other crapware that Seagate might have put on > there. Also, I don't know which disk format they're using. I doubt > it's something that Qubes or Linux would find ideal. > > To start, where do I want to attach the drive? Qubes has > automatically attached it to Dom0, but I doubt that I want to > format it from there.
I strongly recommend using a USB qube, if you can: https://www.qubes-os.org/doc/usb/#creating-and-using-a-usb-qube If you have no choice, then connecting the drive directly to dom0 may be OK, as long as you fully trust it and never connect it to anything else. (If the drive is malicious, then it may have already compromised dom0.) > Does one of the other VMs already have something like gparted > installed, or will I need to download that? > The standard tools will be available in a VM based on the default Fedora template. However, if you prefer additional tools, you should be able to easily find and install them from the Fedora repos. > What file format should I use? > You mean filesystem? It depends on your needs. If you just want something that's well-supported on Qubes and Linux in general, I suggest Ext3. - -- Andrew David Wong (Axon) Community Manager, Qubes OS https://www.qubes-os.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQIcBAEBCgAGBQJYYb5QAAoJENtN07w5UDAwg1sQAML2fIo7Qal9XWLe5TI/U4Vs VLTYa3w83yZk0JHnIVg67rNMvCi4Z7MDU7A0y/eAMsEvJlSRI/mMvb5X9145s0e4 x+95rret0THTrAmeUj035CEwNmSjv6gPchjae27+UEzoBuQgjPOoQedS3En2qGW5 nJbcBAwOO/l7kH7Nme+Z/Yn1WEkS2EG7IKni4pyROpDji5UHA43dTjSFtxAyOtUa k/hPnKNZsooVpNMfZi1QjGQDk3I2RBZoPn8iVcR5tbZxP0MBwA6Mg8++yVq7PNdL swD4TQoN3QiLB7SiAYGm3DaKwKYamwrm26xJ42LoMS76d9kCSQJnyeXzXIeB63lZ 5wanU5pQ949eeh4cfXdaxV09NfXOvna6/TBtkOUiWilDa+ORmxjIamXd76WyCb7u 2S/jURO/+57rs9ZIPbajKt8DkuRQP8Cm0Tsx2HE138jhc5e9sJa8r2rlSffMgkxQ iacWfvek/YCueuFSKVgMpSJPH7aul9bAkpNa9BsoZLV5THrSuyiLfn3v42GZgqEr z2WZLB8Ep6hV3QtA3IwiproiIzwPY8yWz6oBVxl3/vK6914TF+7KxiDc88+fENog +3EMQSC24dGyPy5wRmh+h7TU4thWAMTwHD8B+mYPVoPEKP6NQrOVqWjFOTnDJ39Y MHuJ5YiLsdYSS7Wjbz8c =Q4ZE -----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/ec09a462-6d4c-0738-0eb5-937f229f81df%40qubes-os.org. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
