-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512 On 2017-12-23 15:11, Andrew David Wong wrote: > On 2017-12-22 21:30, yreb...@riseup.net wrote: >> On 2017-12-22 09:50, awokd wrote: >>> On Fri, December 22, 2017 10:29 am, 'Tom Zander' via >>> qubes-users wrote: >>>> On Friday, 22 December 2017 02:42:57 CET yreb...@riseup.net >>>> wrote: >>>> >>>>> assuming 4.0 is going to come out of the box with like >>>>> Debian 9 and Fed 26? >>> >>> If you have room for it, back up everything! You can restore >>> selectively later. > >> thanks for the two replies, *However, neither gets to the gist >> of my inquiry. Namely, which VMs am I supposed to be backing up, > > You should back up every VM that contains data that you don't want > to lose and can't replace. For most people, this means backing up > every VM that contains things like documents, emails, photos, and > videos. If you're short on space, it's not necessary to make > backups of things that you know you'll be able to download easily > again later (e.g., an unmodified TemplateVM). > >> Dom0 (which for some reason is over *500GB!) , hence I can't >> backup "everything" even with a 2GB internal HD that I'm trying >> to use > > > For most users, the main reason to back up dom0 is because that's > where your dom0 user settings are stored. Normally, dom0 should > not be that large, since you're only backing up the home > directory. (You're using qvm-backup, right?) It sounds like you > didn't expect it to be that large, so if there's not enough data in > your home directory to account for it, check /var/tmp to see if you > have a lot of partial restores taking up space. >
Just to clarify: Having a lot of data in /var/tmp shouldn't affect the size of dom0 when you back it up using qvm-backup (since, again, you're only backing up the home directory). But I mention it because I don't know whether you're looking at the total size of dom0, and one common reason for the total size of dom0 becoming unexpectedly large is that /var/tmp fills up with partial restores. >> I was thinking of skipping the 1 large offline AppVM where I >> keep old photos, and did, so why did the Templates and Dom0 >> come out to such a *Huge filesize, what would be typical ??? > >>> From what your saying can I skip the Debian 8 Template, I have >>> 2 AppVMs >> and the Whonix stuff based on it I guess > - -- Andrew David Wong (Axon) Community Manager, Qubes OS https://www.qubes-os.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQIcBAEBCgAGBQJaPsnSAAoJENtN07w5UDAw2MEP/1SRKX9T6cUEcqOsX9ack9qT tId1swRf52oDae+Wrst55VeUGTWL3CtMH1wQnqBjiJ7fF93CJ/UhJJ6zwAnnD2jM PhINCdUV5iVZDJ6W1yBsrtU9izSfwxSb8PwiSW0Zg43iPrzB/pdGn9vhrs3Gts1o jEfewgOuBAWPbcNKNegKMBKlTpXaGpsUki6v9K/kLq7Vk01pg5vwzYtL7Qqniz9m CDI4/GxM8YQjbwDAV+xhQa3/oZ44AjK1osfPGGD1VFafiuyE9gRbl70FoFiZIcpH RjoQSJbiacSnfDitf9FiEAe/A+Hiv3wZ7nejE6mv2hk3PbIgoRnLqXbEDBl/YcZl E//WyeK3UXfdCgAqWV81GnE1mtlt72elLu1rBSPF+kr+1KNu+zwKcaAKhvh47SdA B53+qYpuTvo/Rm66nink5QIDQIoR4RU3NZK//JTPzzF1NDvOqdc5u8c6n+W6OnzX 4WOIuBZetuuq9BrDnQpL3M1DEzOwWmWKA9PBrJXxHeGslwxRj5EfwOWIIFcp8+WO usJwAbVf7nirwtSL+yHnu1d2jXL9ocVRlTrv94M4+PaFyVJ0sn1F8iZtDYmysXye PGAhrj1Vk7XqWgWu1JvWZuxg+6UMaTXVWy/oipfjyD8vVi7i+ZjS0HVP9rknPumn 9kDeKM27/9l/eycZbu6i =+fzT -----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/ea2919a0-3fa5-153e-7a23-7ffd009b80e7%40qubes-os.org. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
