Hello everyone,

there is documentation about 'root-cow.img' online [1], but nothing
about 'private-cow.img'.
Am I right to assume that the 'private.img' is the writable part the VM
sees, with the changes the VM wrote saved on 'private-cow.img', which is
rotated with 'private-img.old.img' after each VM restart for rollback
possibility? This is how I understand 'root-cow.img' at least.

If this is correct, and I backup only 'private.img' of a running VM, I
would miss on all changes the VM did since its current start?
Would 'private.img' be enough when the VM is shut down? It does sound
like 'root.img' need one of the two .old as "binary patches" in any case.

And just to be sure: 'root-cow.img' and 'volatile.img' shouldn't contain
any backup-worthy data of a VM, right?


Thank you,

Stickstoff

[1] https://www.qubes-os.org/doc/template-implementation/

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