On Wednesday, 22 May 2019 01:03:44 UTC, qtpie wrote: > Chris Laprise: > > On 12/09/2018 10:38 AM, Chris Laprise wrote: > >> 'Sparsebak' > >> > >> Fast Time Machine-like disk image backups for Qubes OS and Linux LVM. > >> > > > > And of course, a link to the project :) .... > > > > https://github.com/tasket/sparsebak > > > > > Have people been using Sparsebak? What are your experiences? I havent > been able to test it myself yet, And will it be submitted as a package > to Qubes?
I've been using sparsebak since the announcement - here's my experience with it so far: Before using sparsebak I used custom rsync scripts for frequent incremental backup of the data in my VMs' private volumes. It was quick and efficient and despite the many obvious drawbacks of that approach it was a thousand times better than using qvm-backup/-restore (those programs are so resource hungry that I only ran them once or twice a year - the suggestion of leaving my laptop on at night with a scheduled unattented backup task is a no go for me). Sparsebak was a huge improvement over both qvm-backup/-restore and my custom script approach. Despite the alpha (beta?) status I haven't run into a single problem and Chris has been very diligent in replying to some usage questions I had. Since the announcement he has improved the tool without breaking anything and he also implemented deduplication which definitely saves disk space when backuping cloned VMs (interestingly this also works pretty well cloned VMs that have been heavily customized/updated compared to the original VM). I currently backup 24 volumes (a mix of -root and -private volumes from linux and windows VMs) with a total size of ~100GB, and I use my laptop without any problem while sparsebak is running in the background (incremental backups are fast anyway so even if it used a bit more resources it would be for a short time). Now, as Chris pointed out the only hassle is that you have to set up an encrypted volume to encrypt your backups but it's a pretty easy thing to do. So, I recommend you give the tool a try, maybe in addition to using qvm-backup every now and then until you're confident it's working properly for your setup. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "qubes-devel" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to qubes-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to qubes-devel@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/qubes-devel/3b7ea633-af07-447e-a8d0-199da7e82b7c%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
