> Do you often reboot your VMs? When Qubes creates a backup of a
running VM it will do the backup using the VM state at startup. So if
for example you started your VM (the ones with the outdated/missing
data) 6 weeks ago, but since starting you added/edited/deleted data and
you create a backup, without restarting the VM, the backup will not
include those changes.
Apparently, no. However, I made sure no VM was running (my host system
crashed previously anyways). That means there's a difference between
powering down a VM (e.g. qvm-shutdown) and having a powered down VM due
to crash / power loss? Am I right that the backup tool uses the LV
`vm-<name>-private` for backup only, but my data was in
`vm-<name>-private-snap`?
Then, what about showing a warning that there exists a snap of a VM in
the qubes-backup utility (at the same place where "The VM is running,
backup will contain its state from before its start!" is shown as well),
even if a VM is not running currently? That would have definitively
saved me.
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