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On 26/05/2019 3.44 PM, Eva Star wrote:
> 
>> Don't touch your existing M.2 drive.  Get a spare drive (spinning rust
>> is OK) at least as large as your M.2 drive and that you can attach to
>> your machine (e.g. with a USB SATA dock).
>>
>> Download Tails to a USB stick.  Boot your machine into Tails.  Connect
>> your spare drive.  `fdisk -l` to be sure you have the right device names
>> for all your disks.  `dd` your M.2 to the spare drive.  Now `sync` the
>> disk and detach it.  You now have a backup of your current state.
>>
>> If you _need_ to access some VM data now, you can (with major negative
>> security implications) decrypt your M.2 disk manually with `cryptsetup`,
>> navigate to <m.2>/var/lib/qubes/appvms/<yourvm> and use `losetup` to
>> help mount the VM's data disk in Tails so you can copy off whatever data
>> you urgently need.
> 
> 
> Thanks! It must be at the qubes FAQ. Next time it will help.

Here are the emergency manual restore instructions (for future reference):

https://www.qubes-os.org/doc/backup-restore/#emergency-backup-recovery-without-qubes

> I got the idea with cloning drive (vs actual remove it and do something with 
> it). And looks like it's not so hard to decrypt the whole drive and mount 
> some qubes data disks. Hope I will run without troubles, but will know this 
> opportunity for future use. 
> 
> Chris, thanks! Now solved. I'm at EFI. It was not possible to select 
> something on the boot time or I don't know how to do this.
> 

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

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