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On 26/05/2019 10.15 AM, [email protected] wrote:
> On Sunday, May 26, 2019 at 5:38:00 AM UTC-7, awokd wrote:
>> [email protected]:
>>> What is the point of backing up a qube, if you can't restore to it?
>>>
>>> I'm restoring a full backup, and instead of restoring to qubes, it's 
>>> creating new ones with different names.  WTF!
>>>
>>> What the hell am I supposed to do now?  Delete the original qubes, and 
>>> rename the restores?  I'm guessing that will break a bunch of links, which 
>>> I'll have to manually fix.  Am I the only person that thinks this is 
>>> totally stupid?
>>>
>>> And it says the restored dom0 files are located in some other directory.  
>>> What the hell am I supposed to do with that?  Dom0 can't be restored?  Are 
>>> you kidding me?
>>
>> The easiest way to restore qubes with the same names is to delete the 
>> old ones prior to restore. You'll want to leave or clone an equivalent 
>> of sys-usb and somewhere to mount the backup for the restore, so don't 
>> delete them all.
>>
>> See https://github.com/QubesOS/qubes-issues/issues/4946 on how to move 
>> the restored dom0 files to the right place, it's pretty straight-forward.
> 
> Thanks that was very helpful.
> 

Thanks for sharing your experience. I've updated the issue with some
further thoughts on how we can make this better:

https://github.com/QubesOS/qubes-issues/issues/4946#issuecomment-496032480

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Andrew David Wong (Axon)
Community Manager, Qubes OS
https://www.qubes-os.org

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