On Friday, March 17, 2017 at 3:31:37 PM UTC-4, 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. > 5Bp9975@cB%m0wkX > -- > > Chris Laprise, tas...@openmailbox.org > https://twitter.com/ttaskett > PGP: BEE2 20C5 356E 764A 73EB 4AB3 1DC4 D106 F07F 1886
That was indeed the issue, thanks for the insight! -- 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/fd093e5a-5e9b-4330-a11e-3f783b09bc3b%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
