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On Fri, May 08, 2020 at 04:34:44PM +, Logan wrote:
> As a disaster recovery drill, I backed up, wiped my drive, and attempted to
> do a full restore on top of a fresh Qubes install to see how i'd do in a
> nightmare scenario.
Good practice. I do this once or twice a year also for the benefit of
speeding up my expirience (on SSD).
> Other qubes were restored properly, but my dom0 barely restored. All XFCE
> panel settings were gone. I had to reinstall u2f proxy and some others I
> previously installed, yet select appearance setting remained.
dom0 is not a qube. Any software modifications you made to dom0, you
will have to redo.
What get's backed up completely is everything in your home directory.
Have you noticed the extra directory in dom0 after restoring? It
contains everything that was in your home directory. You can pick and
choose or simply copy all of it back into place.
As far as software goes I maintain a shell scipt in my dom0 home folder
that contains the qubes-dom0-update calls to reinstall redshift and a
few other things I like to have in dom0. Since the shell script gets
restored, I simply call it. ;-)
You could also use salt to do this.
> I thought a restored qube was a bit-by-bit recreation of the qube. Isn't it?
It is. Again: dom0 is not a qube and you are not expected to customize
it much (beyond some Xfce settings) and just overwriting your dom0 home
directory with a restore would be dangerous ... hence the dedicated
directory.
> Is this expected? Has anyone else experienced what I did? Yes, I replaced
> the user folder with the one installed by the fresh install.
You mean the other way around right? Not sure what you are saying.
> Frankly, I was very unhappy with the experience. I have, however, restored
> 99% of what I had prior to the drill with a lot of work. Thankful that my
> other qubes were ok and I hadn't done
Sorry to hear. I do this regularily and it never takes me more than 30
minutes until everything is exactly as it was before (minus the actual
restore time which is so long I let it run over night).
/Sven
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