How can I connect a network drive to an app VM? Bill
On Tuesday, January 18, 2022 at 10:56:10 AM UTC-6 Mike Keehan wrote: > On 1/18/22 15:17, William Fisher wrote: > > I stil can't figure out how to mount the NAS on my local LAN as local > > storage of my qubes (4.0) back-ups. How do I get Qubes to See the NAS > drive? > > > > On Monday, January 17, 2022 at 3:45:44 PM UTC-6 awokd wrote: > > > > William Fisher: > > > I'd like to add a network drive (Buffalo NAS)to my Qubes 4.0 > > system to back > > > up my Qubes. Is it possible? > > > > > Yes. Attach it to a VM with qvm-block, then run the Qubes Backup > > utility. More detail in here under Creating a backup: > > https://www.qubes-os.org/doc/how-to-back-up-restore-and-migrate/ > > <https://www.qubes-os.org/doc/how-to-back-up-restore-and-migrate/> . > > > > -- > > - don't top post > > Mailing list etiquette: > > - trim quoted reply to only relevant portions > > - when possible, copy and paste text instead of screenshots > > Hi William, > > Dom0 has no network connection, so it isn't possible to connect > network storage to it. > > When the Qubes backup process is run, it asks which VM should the > backup be sent to. > > I have a VM called Backup in which I mount a shared folder from > my NAS device. The backup process works fine using this. And I > know that restores from the shared NAS folder work OK too, because > I test that occasionally. > > Good luck, > > 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 view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/qubes-users/df1a87d2-b9e2-46db-97c7-775e9953688bn%40googlegroups.com.
