Many thanks for your helpful reply Chris. > > You also have to configure Qubes not to disable USB at boot time if > your boot drive is USB.
Ah, this is why it was not working for me! I shall try installing the OS directly onto the USB drive and then make the clones from there. It occurs that the USB isolation in Qubes is valuable and therefore running a USB boot drive may not be sensible. > If backup speed is the main issue, take a look at Wyng I have installed this in Dom0 and made a backup, also using your helpful instruction: file: /lib/systemd/system-shutdown/10_root_snapshot.shutdown ``` #!/bin/sh /usr/sbin/lvremove --noudevsync --force -An qubes_dom0/root-autosnap || true /usr/sbin/lvcreate --noudevsync --ignoremonitoring -An -kn -pr -s qubes_dom0/root -n root-autosnap ``` to enable snapshots of the root volume. Incremental backups are indeed very fast and this is what I was looking for. I need to build another box to run a test restore procedure. Perhaps this could be scripted now. Thanks again. -- 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 view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/qubes-users/0102017048a34fe6-ae59d14a-83be-4a6f-9c8a-75c82255811d-000000%40eu-west-1.amazonses.com.
