On 2017-12-23 11:11, Andrew David Wong wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA512 > > On 2017-12-22 21:30, yreb...@riseup.net wrote: >> On 2017-12-22 09:50, awokd wrote: >>> On Fri, December 22, 2017 10:29 am, 'Tom Zander' via qubes-users >>> wrote: >>>> On Friday, 22 December 2017 02:42:57 CET yreb...@riseup.net >>>> wrote: >>>> >>>>> assuming 4.0 is going to come out of the box with like Debian >>>>> 9 and Fed 26? >>> >>> If you have room for it, back up everything! You can restore >>> selectively later. >> >> thanks for the two replies, *However, neither gets to the gist of >> my inquiry. Namely, which VMs am I supposed to be backing up, > > You should back up every VM that contains data that you don't want to > lose and can't replace. For most people, this means backing up every > VM that contains things like documents, emails, photos, and videos. If > you're short on space, it's not necessary to make backups of things > that you know you'll be able to download easily again later (e.g., an > unmodified TemplateVM). > >> Dom0 (which for some reason is over *500GB!) , hence I can't >> backup "everything" even with a 2GB internal HD that I'm trying to >> use >> > > For most users, the main reason to back up dom0 is because that's > where your dom0 user settings are stored. Normally, dom0 should not be > that large, since you're only backing up the home directory. (You're > using qvm-backup, right?) It sounds like you didn't expect it to be > that large, so if there's not enough data in your home directory to > account for it, check /var/tmp to see if you have a lot of partial > restores taking up space. > >> I was thinking of skipping the 1 large offline AppVM where I keep >> old photos, and did, so why did the Templates and Dom0 come out >> to such a *Huge filesize, what would be typical ??? >> >>> From what your saying can I skip the Debian 8 Template, I have 2 >>> AppVMs >> and the Whonix stuff based on it I guess >> > > - -- > Andrew David Wong (Axon)
What is the default backup location from the GUI VM Manager : I'm wondering now where I backed up my 300GB VM with old photos back in May 2017 ....maybe that has something to do with the size problem I'm encountering ...... I probably wanna know where is it anyway. I don't think I thought to change it from the default setting, as I was new, and still am to what behaviour to expect from Qubes systems ...and just let it back up where-ever the default would be. PS: keeping in mind, my perhaps, *only reason to be attempting a backup would be to migrate it to 4.0 , so I *still want to back up Templates and Dom0?? Most of my AppVMs are just for browsing the web and the 15 different times, I've reset up firefox with perhaps a few downloads ..... considering that would there be some reason to backup AppVMs ..... Maybe the only VM that matters *is the 300GB AppVM with photos in it , that stays offline ? re: /var/tmp is dom0 I am unable to cut and paste from dom0 what I see is /dev/mapper/qubes_dom0-root 952848292 780151168(used) 123272164(available) 87% / and various others smaller directories ; I don't know what a "partial restore" would look like ; I never touch dom0 :0 -- cc: the user group -- -- 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/04a90bcb398de37dce6a3d3ba4d83320%40riseup.net. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
