Re: [qubes-users] Full proper backup of Dom0 possible?

2019-06-14 Thread Chris Laprise
Here is another snapshot example that occurs during shutdown; this doesn't cause delays: https://github.com/QubesOS/qubes-issues/issues/5094#issuecomment-502077678 As with templates, having automatic snapshots makes it easier to recover from configuration mishaps. One can just lvrename the

Re: [qubes-users] Full proper backup of Dom0 possible?

2019-06-12 Thread Chris Laprise
On 6/12/19 3:04 PM, Mike Keehan wrote: On Wed, 12 Jun 2019 10:29:54 -0400 Chris Laprise wrote: On 6/11/19 6:50 PM, Chris Laprise wrote: I think the best solution for a safe and comprehensive dom0 backup is to have Qubes simply snapshot the root lv at boot time, before its mounted as

Re: [qubes-users] Full proper backup of Dom0 possible?

2019-06-12 Thread Mike Keehan
On Wed, 12 Jun 2019 10:29:54 -0400 Chris Laprise wrote: > On 6/11/19 6:50 PM, Chris Laprise wrote: > > I think the best solution for a safe and comprehensive dom0 backup > > is to have Qubes simply snapshot the root lv at boot time, before > > its mounted as read-write. It shouldn't take more

Re: [qubes-users] Full proper backup of Dom0 possible?

2019-06-12 Thread Chris Laprise
On 6/11/19 6:50 PM, Chris Laprise wrote: I think the best solution for a safe and comprehensive dom0 backup is to have Qubes simply snapshot the root lv at boot time, before its mounted as read-write. It shouldn't take more than a few script lines in the dom0 startup. Then dom0 can be backed

Re: [qubes-users] Full proper backup of Dom0 possible?

2019-06-11 Thread Chris Laprise
On 6/11/19 1:12 PM, Steve Coleman wrote: To save myself from having to go through this fiasco even one more time I am now saving off the dom0 configuration information using a specific list of those things that I have to hand modify. I then I push that copy to a dedicated AppVM where it will

Re: [qubes-users] Full proper backup of Dom0 possible?

2019-06-11 Thread Steve Coleman
On 6/10/19 4:04 PM, Otto Kratik wrote: For both Template and AppVM's it's easy enough to backup and restore the entire thing as needed using the built-in tools from Qubes Manager, Qmenu or command line. Anything goes wrong, just restore a backup. But for dom0, all that seems to get backed up

Re: [qubes-users] Full proper backup of Dom0 possible?

2019-06-11 Thread Chris
Hello Otto, ‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐ On Monday, June 10, 2019 8:04 PM, Otto Kratik wrote: > But for dom0, all that seems to get backed up is the /home directory, meaning > that any changes to other system areas such as /etc/qubes-rpc/policy/ for > example would not get restored in

[qubes-users] Full proper backup of Dom0 possible?

2019-06-10 Thread Andrew David Wong
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 10/06/2019 3.04 PM, Otto Kratik wrote: > For both Template and AppVM's it's easy enough to backup and > restore the entire thing as needed using the built-in tools from > Qubes Manager, Qmenu or command line. Anything goes wrong, just > restore a

Re: [qubes-users] Full proper backup of Dom0 possible?

2019-06-10 Thread Chris Laprise
On 6/10/19 4:04 PM, Otto Kratik wrote: For both Template and AppVM's it's easy enough to backup and restore the entire thing as needed using the built-in tools from Qubes Manager, Qmenu or command line. Anything goes wrong, just restore a backup. But for dom0, all that seems to get backed up

[qubes-users] Full proper backup of Dom0 possible?

2019-06-10 Thread Otto Kratik
For both Template and AppVM's it's easy enough to backup and restore the entire thing as needed using the built-in tools from Qubes Manager, Qmenu or command line. Anything goes wrong, just restore a backup. But for dom0, all that seems to get backed up is the /home directory, meaning that any