"Backup VMs" does not backup salt configuration

[qu...@posteo.de]

Hi,

I have now nearly a complete salt configuration for all my templates so
I do not need to backup them anymore and save a lot of space by this.

So I have ran a backup including dom0 and realized that the salt
configuration ("/srv/salt") does not seem to be included because it is
much bigger than the MB listed for dom0.

Is there a way to back it up right now with this method or do I manually
have to copy everything outside of dom0?

Thx in advance

[john.david.r.smith]

i put my files in ~/salt and symlinked them to /srv/salt
then backups should work

[Oleg Artemiev]

Hi.

Could you point to source for more information on your work?

Backups work slow (disk/network bottlenecks) & I'm also interested to
backup less.

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[qu...@posteo.de]

Hey,

On 05.02.2017 00:06, Oleg Artemiev wrote:
> Hi.
>
> On Wed, Feb 1, 2017 at 11:56 PM, john.david.r.smith
> <john.davi...@openmailbox.org> wrote:
>> On 01/02/17 21:30, qu...@posteo.de wrote:
>>> I have now nearly a complete salt configuration for all my templates
>>> so I
>>> do not need to backup them anymore and save a lot of space by this.
>

> Could you point to source for more information on your work?

I have not posted my work anywhere but I learned most things from this
repo https://github.com/Nekroze/qubes-salt
and of course the salt documentation and hints from John

Regards

[john.david.r.smith]

On 05/02/17 00:06, Oleg Artemiev wrote:
> Hi.
>
> On Wed, Feb 1, 2017 at 11:56 PM, john.david.r.smith
> <john.davi...@openmailbox.org> wrote:
>> On 01/02/17 21:30, qu...@posteo.de wrote:
>>> I have now nearly a complete salt configuration for all my templates so I
>>> do not need to backup them anymore and save a lot of space by this.
>>>
>>> So I have ran a backup including dom0 and realized that the salt
>>> configuration ("/srv/salt") does not seem to be included because it is much
>>> bigger than the MB listed for dom0.
>>>
>>> Is there a way to back it up right now with this method or do I manually
>>> have to copy everything outside of dom0?
>>>
>>> Thx in advance
>>>
>>
>> i put my files in ~/salt and symlinked them to /srv/salt
>> then backups should work
>
> Could you point to source for more information on your work?
>
> Backups work slow (disk/network bottlenecks) & I'm also interested to
> backup less.
>

i started to extend the salt documentation and just added an pull-request.
you can find my repo of the doc here:

https://github.com/john-david-r-smith/qubes-doc/blob/salt-doc/configuration/salt.md

[john.david.r.smith]

here the correct link (i failed to push on my branch...):
https://github.com/john-david-r-smith/qubes-doc/blob/master/configuration/salt.md