On Wednesday, November 9, 2016 at 10:25:47 AM UTC-5, Desobediente wrote: > If you just want to move files in the old fashion way and not entire AppVM in > the sense that the AppVMs should remain in the original drive, in other > words, if you want to be able to remove the other hard drive from the system > and will useit mainly for storage of large files, > > > then the answers are more questions: > > > is your qubes system encrypted? > do you need the files to be encrypted? > > > If you are willing to accept common knowledge as advice, then yes, you shall > encrypt everything every time, unless there are reasons not to. For example, > encrypted disks will make data unavailable to data recovery for an obvious > reason. If the data is not sensitive and it should remain forever > recoverable, that could be a reason not to encrypt data, but that is one > exception of the above rule. > > > Anyway, if this is your case, it should be simple as attaching the disk into > any AppVM and running the GNOME Disks application. I'm not sure what's the > name of that in the KDE and XFCE desktops, but i know that if you call it via > terminal, it's gnome-disks. > > > From there it should be straightforward, but there is this tutorial in the > Tails website if you want: > https://tails.boum.org/doc/encryption_and_privacy/encrypted_volumes/index.en.html
In the future I would probably store large files (or collections of large files like music) but for now I had in mind at least storing some of my templateVM copies as I have a backup copy of each template (and the WinHVM is taking up an esp large amt of space). As for my Qubes system, its def encrypted, that part I am sure of. My general thought is, better to be safe than sorry. The exception I could think of is if I had short-term bkups (I do "long term" bkups on an ext drive) on this drive they are encrypted but most everything else I figure, why not encrypt? So gnome-disks, I think that will be pretty straight forward, but when I want to open it I'd have to go to a VM -> file manager and enter a passwd everytime ... I think? (trying to wrap my head around this). If I wanted something a bit automatic like the https://www.qubes-os.org/doc/secondary-storage/ option, is there a way the drive could automatically be mounted/decrypted so that template backups could be accessed (and updated, wouldn't want out of date templates). Thx! -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "qubes-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to qubes-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to qubes-users@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/qubes-users/f38bf403-1253-49e9-a46a-267b1b3b43db%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
