On Fri, Mar 17, 2017 at 03:31:24PM -0400, Chris Laprise wrote: > On 03/17/2017 02:55 PM, jimmy.dack...@gmail.com wrote: > >I'm trying out the backup feature in Qubes but getting an error. > > > >I'm trying to save VMs totaling 22.4GB in size on a USB stick with 63GB free. > > > >At 19% progress is get: > >"[Dom0] Backup error! > >ERROR: Failed to write the backup, VM output: cat: write error: File too > >large." > > > >Is there a maximum file size for backups? A RAM limitation (I have 8GB RAM > >and when I do the backup about 6GB is free)? Something else I'm not thinking > >of? > > > >I am able to do a small backup, such as just Dom0 itself. > > > >Also a general question about backups: if I do a backup and then restore, > >will it add what I backed up to what is already on the system? Or completely > >overwrite everything? For example, if I have 10 VMs and backup 3, then > >restore the 3, will it just overwrite those three and leave the other 7 > >alone? Or will I only have those 3 and the other 7 are wiped out? > > > > Likely the filesystem (FAT?) on the destination cannot handle files over a > certain size. You may want to reformat it with a native Linux fs like Ext4. >
To answer your general question, the restore operation will tell you there is an existing qube with the same name and wont allow you to overwrite it. It certainly wont delete qubes not included in the restore. As always the command line tool offers many more options and more granular control - it still wont act on qubes not involved in the restore operation, (unless you are doing something to their template obviously.) unman -- 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/20170317212124.GC1810%40thirdeyesecurity.org. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
