On Friday, December 29, 2017 at 11:42:35 AM UTC-5, Kushal Das wrote: > On Sat, Dec 23, 2017 at 1:28 AM, 'awokd' via qubes-users > <qubes-users@googlegroups.com> wrote: > > On Fri, December 22, 2017 6:12 pm, Josefa Hays wrote: > > > > > >> I recently installed Q4.0-rc3. I have an old qubes-backup (from 2016) on > >> a LUKS encrypted external HDD. How do I restore my backup in 4.0 using > >> qvm-backup-restore? I guess I don't want to mount the drive directly in > >> Dom0, so, how do I do? Create a designated "backup-vm" and then exactly > >> how do I proceed? > >> > >> What would be the step-by-step guide for restoring an old qubes-backup > >> using the commandline interface? Until the backup-GUI gets up and running > >> in 4.0 I guess many users will have the same question. > > > > Attach external drive to sys-usb > > "qvm-block" to list partitions > > "qvm-block a backup-vm sys-usb:sda1" (whichever is your LUKS partition) > > mount and unlock inside backup-vm > > "qvm-backup-restore -d backup-vm /path/to/backupfileinbackupvm oldvm1 > > oldvm2 oldvm3" to selectively restore certain vms > > unmount inside backup-vm > > "qvm-block d backup-vm sys-usb:sda1" > > Detach drive > Does this mean USB3 based storage devices started working in 4.0? > > No update in the following bug on the same. > > https://github.com/QubesOS/qubes-issues/issues/3351 > > Kushal > -- > Staff, Freedom of the Press Foundation > CPython Core Developer > Director, Python Software Foundation > https://kushaldas.in seems marmarek posted an update, he suggest to update the fedora.
But it seems passthrough for usb3 is still not supported yet, only block device. I'm glad for these posts before I attempted to try 4.0 and restore my old backups. I think I might wait a while. -- 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/0a7c5868-47c6-4b5b-ae19-33a7f47072d5%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
