> On 8. Oct 2020, at 07:02, Frank wrote: >>> On 7. Oct 2020, at 20:52, Stumpy stumpy-at-posteo.co wrote: >>> On 2020-10-07 21:13, Stumpy wrote: >>> On 2020-10-06 19:12, Frank wrote: >>>>> On 6. Oct 2020, at 13:53, Stumpy stumpy-at-posteo.co wrote: >>>>> On 2020-10-06 10:46, Frank wrote: >>>>>>>>> On 5. Oct 2020, at 16:16, Stumpy stumpy-at-posteo.co wrote: >>>>>>>> My computer actiing strange like some appvms not opening so i >>>>>>>> decided to restart and restarted normally and booted back up fine >>>>>>>> except now i can hardly open anything. Appvms will not start, I >>>>>>>> tried to do a backup from dom0 term and that gave me an error, tried >>>>>>>> to run qubes-qube-manager and that gave me a similar error [1]... >>>>>>>> I'm at a loss. Of course I just finished doing some important work >>>>>>>> and didnt immediately backp (usually bkup weekly). >>>>>>>> I am not thrilled about reinstalling but can do it, but really >>>>>>>> really really want to back up my appvms before nuking everything. If >>>>>>>> i cant use the regular backup is there a way i can just copy things? >>>>>>>> I think I can still mount an external drive... >>>>>>> This should give you all the information necessary to get your data >>>>>>> saved: >>>>>>> https://www.qubes-os.org/doc/mount-from-other-os/ >>>>>>> Regards, Frank >>>>>> Thank you, I didnt notice that. >>>>>> I dont suppose you have any thoughts on the error that seems to be >>>>>> borking my system? >>>> I fear I don’t... but isn’t errno 2 something like „file not found“? >>>> So it smells like dom0 is having problems getting everything mounted >>>> where it belongs - either because the file system is screwed or LVM is >>>> having some problems. >>>> In any case, I’d be backing up whatever I could get my hands on and >>>> then reinstall... >>> Ok so on the mount from other os page its not totally clear for me. >>> I do have a barebones qubes system on another computer (laptop), so >>> would/should I take my ssd from my desktop connect it (have an adapter >>> cable) to my laptop then "pass" the whole disk to an isolated appvm? >>> If yes, then,,, what is meant by passing the disk to an appvm >>> (copying?) and when it says isolated appvm does that just mean, in my >>> case, an appvm on my laptop? Lastly, as my laptop drive is smaller >>> than my desktop drive, would I be able to selectively copy/mount to my >>> laptop appvm or would I need to go another route? >> >> btw, on my desktop, I am still able to access a dom0 terminal and can >> connect to an external drive (I think), so can i just cp the appvms to an >> external drive and then extract the contents of the critical appvms? > > Well in that case you can do the following in a dom0 terminal (assuming the > name of your AppVM you want to get files from is my-appvm): > > # create a mount point to access the disk: > > sudo mkdir /mnt/private > > # make the private volume of the appvm accessible !!! notice the doubling of > the dash in the AppVMs name (naturally not applicable if your AppVMs name > does not contain a dash) !!! > > sudo losetup -f —show /dev/mapper/qubes_dom0-vm—my—appvm—private > > # use the loop device the last command printed to the screen (i.e. > /dev/loop2) to mount the AppVMs private volume > > sudo mount /dev/loop2 /mnt/private > > # now you should be able to copy whatever data you want to save > > cp /mnt/private/home/user/* /some/place/save/
And for the sake of completeness, after you are done copying, do # unmounting the disk sudo umount /mnt/private # detaching the loop device sudo losetup -d /dev/loop2 (and don’t forget: /dev/loop2 in the above commands is only an example! You have to use whatever the first losetup command is printing to the screen instead!) > > Hope that works out for you! > > Regards, Frank -- 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 qubes-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/qubes-users/10715-1602134688-452138%40sneakemail.com.
