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On 2016-09-27 06:59, 'Gabriel' via qubes-users wrote:
> Hi fellows,
>
> I started using qubes a while ago and I have a question concerning backups.
> What I want is a complete backup to a dedicated external USB HDD. I understand to achieve this all the VMs must be shut down.
> Therefore when I plugged in the HDD I mounted it in dom0 under /mnt.
>
This is fine as long as you trust the USB device you're attaching to dom0. If you don't, consider using a USB qube instead:
https://www.qubes-os.org/doc/usb/#creating-and-using-a-usb-qube
> Questions:
> 1. When I ran Qubes VM Manager -> Backup VMs, I received an error message stating no place on device and a zero byte backup file. Permissions are OK, there's more than enough space on the HDD.
> Any reasons why the backup did not succeed?
>
Are you sure you selected the correct device in the menu?
> 2. I tried running qvm-backup from the command line, which ran fine, no permission problems on the same HDD. However, the template VMs are not included by default and I saw no command-line option to automatically achieve this. Am I missing something here?
>
The RPM-managed TemplateVMs should normally not be backed up. Instead, you should clone them (if you can spare the drive space), make your customizations, then back up the clones.
> 3. I know I can manually list all the VMs on the command line to be backed up, but I find that a bit awkward, so I tried this:
> qvm-ls --raw-list | xargs qvm-backup /mnt/test/
>
> but this threw a Python exception...
>
> For now I resorted to typing all the VMs by hand ... not elegant.
>
> Any help is appreciated.
>
Try this:
$ qvm-backup /mnt/test/ `qvm-ls --raw-list`
You can also prepare a list of VMs (one VM name per line) as a file, then:
$ qvm-backup /mnt/test/ `cat vm_list.txt`
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Andrew David Wong (Axon)
Community Manager, Qubes OS
https://www.qubes-os.org
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