On Sunday, September 1, 2019 at 12:00:20 PM UTC+2, donoban wrote: > > On 9/1/19 10:46 AM, 'Heinrich Ulbricht' via qubes-users wrote: > > Thank you very much for helping me out on this, awokd and Andrew. > > Currently I'm leaning toward taking the safe path. If I understand > > correctly that means: > > > > 1. Backup everything that's on the SSD /and/ the external storage pool > > HDDs - this will take a lot of time and space but that's the price I > > have to pay for the safety I get > > 2. Connect the new SSD, wipe the external drives > > 3. Install Qubes OS on the new SSD > > 4. Create external storage pools on the additional HDDs > > 5. Make the SSD the default pool; restore VMs for SSD > > 6. Make external disk 1 the default pool; restore VMs for this pool > > 7. Make external disk 2 the default pool; restore VMs for this pool > > 8. Switch default pool back to SSD > > 9. Done > > > > How does this sound? > > > > Hi, > > I recently did a hard disk upgrade and reinstall so I followed this same > steps. > > Generally it should work fine but in mi experience there is a little > issue[1] that can cause additional delay on the process. In steps 6/7, > if your destination hard disk is slower than the your main hard disk > (where dom0 is installed), your backup will be full extracted on dom0, > so you can run out of space if you don't take this in account. > > If your dom0 is smaller than the total amount to extract, you should > restore your domains grouping them in a reasonable amount. > > Another way is changing the temporary directory for the restore process > but it can not be changed with command arguments. You need to modify > 'restore.py' or mount /var/tmp on another device, or use symbolic link. > > [1] https://github.com/QubesOS/qubes-issues/issues/3230 >
Thank you very much for pointing this out. Sounds like a lot of saved troubleshooting time for me as I might run into this. I think I'm set for the safe path (although the shortcut proposed by Chris Laprise sounds tempting). I'll report back how it went. -- 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 view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/qubes-users/6c7ef9dc-37cc-43f7-b59e-cc22c3b33355%40googlegroups.com.
