On Tuesday, February 20, 2018 at 3:21:23 PM UTC+1, Bernhard wrote: > > > Apologies, missed your post donoban. But looping the backup seems > interesting, I suppose it must be possible with the decryption too. > > Yes, it is. I backup by data that way since Q4 - the qubes-backup may > be more "handy", but I prefer knowing every single detail on encryption, > etc myself. You may mount a luks-container in sys-usb (for example), and > then attach one-by-one your app-vm private.img to sys-usb using the > qubes widget; after mounting them (ro of course) you can simply rsync > your data, most conveniently to the backup volume. Your app-vm will not > be exposed to usb that way. > > If you have a full dd take of your qubes system (I understood you inital > mail like that), be aware that the some image files are rather like "dd > disk images" rather than "dd partition images", which means you cannot > use the most straightforward mount on the loop device (you never mount a > disc, but a partition!). Instead, have to read the offset of the > partition start using fdisk or similar, and provide this offset to the > mount command. A quick google reveals the details on this procedure :) > > Bernhard
That's a pretty cool and nice trick, I'm definitely gonna play with it when I get the time for it. I feel the same about such programs too, complex backup mechanisms are a single point of failure... I might just adapt your habit there, even though this isn't my thread/issue, I'll still say thanks for sharing. Hopefully that solves the OP problem though, it seems like it's exactly what he's looking for by the looks of it. -- 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/dc2ec088-2e13-4069-a65b-7985f84d9902%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
