On 12/07/2017 03:37 PM, Zrubi wrote: > On 12/07/2017 03:04 PM, [email protected] wrote: > > Dont tell me the geniuses behind this thought it was more > > streamlined to remove the feature and make it only command > > line.... > > > It was part of the Qubes Manager, so... it is gone with the wind ;) > I am not really in position to answer this question correctly, but I backup "by hand". How that? Well, put uour favourite backup system to your computer. A disc to sys-usb for example. Mount it in sys-usb & generate a sufficiently large file on it ("truncate -s 200G qubes.backup.luks" for example generates a 200G filke in < 1s. If you are paranoid you overwrite it with random data). (1) losetup -f # to get a free llop devicename I call ip lloopXXX, then (2) losetup /dev/loopXXX qubes.backup.luks # now your file il looped to /dev/loopXXX, so it "is" a device. (3) cryptsetup luksFormat /dev/loopXXX BACKUP # Now you create a luks volume on it. Check Luks doc for parameters. (4) cryptsetup luksOpen /dev/loopXXX BACKUP # open it (need your pwd once more) (5) mkfs.ext2 /dev/mapper/BACKUP # create filesystem on the new backup volume (6) mount /dev/mapper/BACKUP /yourmountpoint. # and mount it
Now generate one folder in /yourmountpoint for each qube ; the point is that the Q-menu allows to attach any qube's private image to sys-usb as well, so you may mount it there to some folder, say /source and then rsync your data in the right backup-subfolder. This sound complicated, but is really fast to do. At the very end you should (7) umount /yourmountpoint # unmount backup (8) cryptsetup luksClose BACKUP # close luks container (9) losetup -d qubes.backup.luks # free the loop-device If I were better in bash-scripting I would do that automatedly, but I regret that ... Bernhard -- 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/61322771-ce70-7e6a-24d6-c612ac457e8c%40web.de. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
