> On Apr 1, 2019, at 10:01 PM, Andrew David Wong <a...@qubes-os.org> wrote:
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> On 01/04/2019 2.54 PM, Ryan Tate wrote:
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>> If the wish is not “restore” but rather to copy some files — “some
>> files and scripts that I need” — then it is up to the user to
>> transfer these files by the usual mechanism.
>>
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> What is "the usual mechanism"? The main problem with the old behavior
> was that there was no reasonable way to get the dom0 home files out of
> the backup without clobbering the current dom0 home files that you
> want to keep.
The usual mechanism would be however you would normally move files from one
machine to another. Not the backup/restore mechanism, since he scenario of
wanting to move some files and scripts to a new machine is not backup/restore.
Why is file transport being shoehorned into the backup mechanism? In order for
some people to use restore for something other than restore, I had to spend a
bunch of time navigating through obscure folders, copying with globs and mv and
shunting aside old dirs, restarting (multiple times), and crossing my fingers
it would work. Shouldn’t it be users who are doing strange, non backup/restore
things who have to jump through hoops, and people who simply want to restore
dom0 who get helpful default behavior?
If people seem open to a change I’ll file an enhancement request.
>
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