emergency backup recovery proedue - how do you tell which "vm" folder is what AppVM

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cubit

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Jun 21, 2017, 3:38:04 PM6/21/17
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I am having to do an emergency backup recovery on my most recent backup as a restore from GUI fails. 


I have a lot of AppVM and TemplateVM, 30 in total.   After I extract the backup archive I am presented with a list of folder (vmNN)  one for each VM.  

-rw-rw-r-- 1 user user          93 Jun 14 12:23 backup-header
-rw-rw-r-- 1 user user         138 Jun 14 12:23 backup-header.hmac
drwxrwxr-x 2 user user        4096 Jun 21 19:23 dom0-home
-rw-rw-r-- 1 user user       30752 Jun 14 12:23 qubes.xml.000
-rw-rw-r-- 1 user user         138 Jun 14 12:23 qubes.xml.000.hmac
drwxrwxr-x 3 user user        4096 Jun 21 19:10 vm1
drwxrwxr-x 2 user user        4096 Jun 21 18:45 vm10
drwxrwxr-x 2 user user        4096 Jun 21 19:02 vm11
drwxrwxr-x 2 user user        4096 Jun 21 19:10 vm13
drwxrwxr-x 2 user user        4096 Jun 21 18:40 vm14
.....................

Is there a way how do I know what vm number corresponds to an appVM name so I do not have to try restore each vmNN folder to get my files back for just one problem VM.




cubit

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Jun 21, 2017, 4:02:06 PM6/21/17
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21. Jun 2017 19:38 by cu...@tutanota.com:

To answer my own question.  from the same directory as the vmNN folders:


   cat qubes.xml.??? | openssl enc -d -pass pass:"my_pass" -aes-256-cbc -out qubes.xml


Then look for the appVM name and the corresponding "qid="





  

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