On Tuesday, November 7, 2017 at 3:07:20 PM UTC, Holger Levsen wrote: > On Tue, Nov 07, 2017 at 06:56:00AM -0800, Yuraeitha wrote: > > Do you happen to know if issues of the backup and backup-restore has been > > fixed though? > > no, it will need brave testers like you to find out ;) > > I'd suggest to backup 3.2, install 4.0 on a new/another disk and see if > restore works. If it doesnt, well you still have the old disk with 3.2 > and you can continue to work. (just please file a bug in that case so > the bug becomes visible and can be fixed!) > > as you say, it's still an release candidate... > > personally I'm happy with 3.2 and don't plan to upgrade before 2 months > after the official 4.0 release or so. Sometimes I'm conservative. > > > -- > cheers, > Holger
lmao, true, I might be challenging my fate a bit too much, one day falling into the pit of misery. But nontheless, no regreets for now (at least I did not loose anything), despite the hours used to fix various Qubes 4 RC-2 issues. As for your suggestion Holger, I agree, but I just want to add one thing. If installing over UEFI/EFI instead of BIOS/Legacy-Boot, then be extra careful. At least in my anecdotal case, I've run into some efibootmgr issues with Qubes 4 release, when I tried to swap out various Qubes installs on my UEFI system. For some reason or another, efibootmgr failed when I tried to fix a EFI boot setting in the UEFI. Since installing a new Qubes replaces the old in the UEFI settings, it might still be a risk, despite all the data still being available. It used to always work in previous times, like with Qubes 3.2. Something seems different here with Qubes 4. So I'd like to add to only try this on a machine where Qubes 3.2. is already installed with BIOS/Legacy, and perhaps also pull out or disable the drive with Qubes 3.2 on it, just to be 100% sure nothing goes wrong. or yeah, alternatively rely on a Qubes backup to fallback on Qubes 3.2, despite the extra work. But it never hurts to be extra safe. -- 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/f06766fa-0b7b-47b9-8d8c-1c8f3b6fd8e7%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
