On Tue, 16 Apr 2019 12:21:54 -0400 Ryan Tate <ryant...@ryantate.com> wrote:
> Today I went to backup my machine using Qubes backup GUI and near the > end (?) the progress bar was at 100% but the Finish button was not > clickable. I waited maybe half an hour, an hour, and tried closing > the window. I got an error message saying the window was not > responding and asking if I wanted to force close. I said No. Now > (maybe 15 minutes later) the window is completely blank. > > I have previously been left without a bootable Qubes machine because > I cancelled a Qubes restore. I am worried I am about to be in the > same state. Is there anywhere I can check to see if there are big > stray files left behind in dom0 and not cleaned up? Can I check if > I’m about to have lvm issues? > > Also, this is not the first time Qubes Backup has behaved oddly. I > also commonly get it stuck at 99% for hours so I give up and force > close. Other times, it proceeds pretty quickly to 100% and I get the > Finish button clickable. > > The backup is only about 90GB (uncompressed, but compressed it is > somewhere closer to 50GB) and is coming off a speedy internal drive > to a decent USB3 external disk. No idea why I am having these issues. > It was a combination of issues on my machine that caused the same thing, 1. I do not have the lvm disk setup, 2. Backing up live vms. As long as I only back up vms that are off, it all works perfectly. I found this answered by Marek after searching for a while. I have restored OK too, but have only done this once. It worked fine. Mike. -- 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/20190416193238.2479a8a9.mike%40keehan.net. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
