On Mon, 27 May 2019 12:45:15 -0700 (PDT) Ivan Mitev <i...@maa.bz> wrote:
> 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. > HI Ivan, It seems to be working well for you. Can I ask if you have tried restoring VMs? Is it possible to restore single files, or is it whole VMs only? (I haven't tried it myself - still just using Qubes builtin backup and restore). Mike. -- 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/20190528212624.390ed9e5.mike%40keehan.net. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
