On Tuesday, February 20, 2018 at 2:52:38 PM UTC+1, donoban wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA256 > > On 02/20/2018 02:16 PM, [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 think you could restore /var/lib/qubes/appvms/vm-name/private.img > and mount it as a loop device. Then extract the file you want. > > However I don't see too much benefit with your method. Are you getting > your whole hard disk backup on /dir-to-new-image/hda1.img? If yes it's > not very useful for getting then one single file. > > I think it's simpler and more efficient just restoring an standard > Qubes backup (only the VM's that you need), start them, move the files > you want outside and remove it. > > With Qubes backup you have possibility to restore individual VM's, > integrity check of the backup, possibility of encryption, and also > store related configuration of the vm (firewall, netVM, etc...). > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > > iQIzBAEBCAAdFiEEznLCgPSfWTT+LPrmFBMQ2OPtCKUFAlqMKAkACgkQFBMQ2OPt > CKXgRQ/9Hi8UFzT+vgZ2Zs0J6rZ12GkQYGwbTtzFMbBXeuUmPhr1TFhKXCAkLEIV > GxBOOJdUvBeEcDwfIje7kQ1x3WdEQnArFFsmahP/N/iboS6nSWfChFJ0wt6MHRgJ > h6jXn/VoRzNpc6/ONMda7ErvHaDvNA1MGKXIBTO136cfJBv7CoOVGx/22KbDbXy5 > j80NqW3nmOodHZ4IPmSgAV7B4r2ATGS0ki8plMNg/fmzM7ipzbFSl9Vgk0kIGkJq > hN5OUEz3WBWQE7K1UWDo8O0qW14tJ1lhfu4wDGSEhg2JPM2VkTVxxEciB8D0+tew > PEVlehCZ/1VJ5LK8irbo0ZcPzhEkI+mVFr+RmwLVvqwnn+0jkw0tUlWrTEhpEK2c > JkI8rr+ib4409sRZyqrNSpCI8zQZzF8cFFC/dIhr66Q3t2QHDzlayEf+qPDEls2I > T/qqNILdDtx27r0T86ORRsf2NTTaMKchz1I9YujK730JRDrsIO70rW3bQLfWxlfO > 6BZuqMhslSnwQ/TWjsAtFS7l9nWxqEJEbDnUxGc6v/JJShBYg+0Rw/Cs1U+4KLI/ > KU4KMqjC186b9QacmduuyTKlhTyWeZJB18sosMDWRgJbCbhR6mzL1oK2vHqG7q1U > wTIQZWI28s6XP9QbtnsmZdXfSKiYiluWlOEgSMuz7PzB1zrb6O8= > =97+k > -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
Apologies, missed your post donoban. But looping the backup seems interesting, I suppose it must be possible with the decryption too. -- 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/d2cdfd3f-bca9-4f7b-99a0-272ebde1dccc%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
