On Saturday, December 23, 2017 at 8:40:08 PM UTC-5, Marek Marczykowski-Górecki 
wrote:
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> On Wed, Dec 20, 2017 at 10:35:26AM -0800, cooloutac wrote:
> > Thinking of upgrading to 4.0.
> > if I want to restore vms from 3.2, possibly compromised, system.  Can I use 
> > the paranoid restore mode in 4.0,  or would that only work from 4.0 backup.
> 
> This isn't properly documented yet. The general idea is to restore the
> backup using some dedicated VM (maybe even disposable VM), instead of
> dom0. See here: 
> https://www.qubes-os.org/news/2017/06/27/qubes-admin-api/#sandboxed-paranoid-backup-restores
> In the section "Simple management VM demo", you can find required steps
> to setup qrexec policy to allow such operation.
> 
> Our previous tests weren't very successful:
> https://github.com/QubesOS/qubes-issues/issues/2986
> 
> But things have improved since then and hopefully(*) it works now.
> 
> (*) which reminds me to add automated test for this case of backup
> too...
> 
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> Best Regards,
> Marek Marczykowski-Górecki
> Invisible Things Lab
> A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text.
> Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?
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tks when I get a chance I'll give it a shot.

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