I wasn’t aware of these options. Thanks for pointing out. I will certainly try them out.
I agree with all your points about backup being practical and usable. The password is the weak link here’ as everywhere’ just like private keys. Perhaps something like YubiKey plus KeePass can solve this problem. Or someone may have a better suggestion. I had once tried setting up YubiKey on Qubes, but there was some problem. I will get around to solve them as YubiKey is known to work with Qubes. I made the mistake of trying it out on MacOS Catalina, but all hell broke lose. I do use it on Windows, Google etc. Regards, Anil > On 04-Jan-2020, at 4:41 PM, dhorf-hfref.4a288...@hashmail.org wrote: > > On Sat, Jan 04, 2020 at 03:56:49PM +0530, Anil Eklavya wrote: >> A better way to backup and restore will make Qubes much more usable, >> preferably at some point using something like rsync, as they have >> already been considering. This is one crucial feature that makes it >> difficult for common users to use this OS as a default. > > idgi, why dont these people use whatever backup solution they prefer? > > i have been using "borgbackup" to make automated, hourly, incremental > backups of my qubes machines since qubes3, even did the move > from qubes3 to qubes4 by "reinstall, restore" or use "backup on machine > x, restore on machine y" to move appvms or even templates around. > > "restic" looks to have a very similar featureset and i heard good things > about it, might have used it if i had found it before borg. > > in comparison, "qubes-backup" is about as useful as considering "tar" > to be the actual default backup solution of a plain linux. > dont get me wrong, i am not uninstalling tar or qubes-backup, but > i cant remember the last time i was desperate enough to actualy > use either for a backup. > > three important points wrt backups in the real world: > - backups have to be automated + background, or they wont happen. > - backups have to be incremental, or they wont happen frequently. > - and unless you have a restore process you are familiar with and > use at least sometimes ... > ... you dont have a (real) backup you should rely on. > > -- 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/9FA0DE1A-7AD3-45C2-965D-CD3DD9758271%40gmail.com.
