On Tuesday, February 20, 2018 at 2:16:52 PM UTC+1, [email protected] wrote: > Not sure if what I want to achieve is possible but I'll try and summarise > below. > > With other distros that I run (WIN10, Ubuntu, Debian) as well as QUBES - I > make full disk images using CLONEZILLA and retain them on a spare PC, running > as a local server. > > All full disk restores work fine, including QUBES OS - which is now my > primary system. > > Ideally I'd like to be able to have access to individual files within the > image copies(if needed). > > For DEBIAN, Ubuntu and I assume WIN10(though not really bothered about that) > I can go into terminal on my backup PC and key something along the lines of > > sudo cat /dir-to-images/sdb1.ext4-ptcl-img.gz.* | sudo gzip -d -c | sudo > partclone.ext4 -C -r -W -s - -O /dir-to-new-image/hda1.img > > where all the key files take the form sdb1.ext4-ptcl-img.gz.* > with * being aa,ab,ac etc. > > > As long as I've created a restore file first (eg hda1.img in the above > example) the above code works fine - and if I mount the hda1.img file, then > all my folders and files are accessible. > > I can then recover say an individual file without having to do full disk > restore etc. > > IS THIS POSSIBLE WITH QUBES? > > The relevant files take the form sdc1.ext4-ptcl-img.gz.aa (a single file) and > lots of files of the form sdc2.dd-img.aa, sdc2.dd-img.ab through to > sdc2.dd-img.bd. > > The above instruction works with the sdc1 file and opens up various system > files - but I can't do anything to read the sdc2 series of files. > > Am not sure what to expect if I could get it to work since each VM has its > own DOCUMENTS, DOWNLOAD folders etc. > > Is what I want to achieve possible and if so - grateful for any suggestions > as to relevant code needed. > > If not - any suggestions about a different approach to a simple "system" > backup with access to individual files as needed?
I'm not sure about extracting from the backup (it's probably possible), but you can do something else though. The concern is full restore, right? How familiar are you with the qvm-backup/qvm-backup-restore exclusion or inclusion methods? I.e. only backup or restore a single or handful of AppVM's without the rest of the system, etc. Also are you familiar with qvm-backup/qvm-backup-restore profiles? I know it's still overkill to restore a full AppVM, having to delete it all again after extracting the specific file(s), but if you're not doing this already, atleast this can get you halfway there. For example if you have a work AppVM, you can make a profile for it and do frequent backups of just that one AppVM and nothing else, then it'll go pretty fast too in encryption/decryption, compared to a full system procedure. It's not perfect, but maybe it's something? -- 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/d066a1a5-e309-4edd-a903-924f497ba727%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
