Moving cache dirs out of /dev/xvdb

[Chris Laprise]

Thinking about backup procedures, some VMs carry large amounts of
transient data in places like ~/.cache. For a block-device incremental
backup system to exclude the data, the folder would have to be in a
separate volume such as vm-name-cache instead of vm-name-private. And
people seem to prefer block-device backups.

So having a "cache" class of storage volume for each VM makes sense from
this perspective.

I just wanted to post this idea to explore whether its worth exploring.

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Chris Laprise, tas...@posteo.net
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[Andrew David Wong]

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On 2018-03-30 16:27, Chris Laprise wrote:
> Thinking about backup procedures, some VMs carry large amounts of
> transient data in places like ~/.cache. For a block-device incremental
> backup system to exclude the data, the folder would have to be in a
> separate volume such as vm-name-cache instead of vm-name-private. And
> people seem to prefer block-device backups.
>
> So having a "cache" class of storage volume for each VM makes sense from
> this perspective.
>
> I just wanted to post this idea to explore whether its worth exploring.
>

This reminds me of a related discussion we had here several years ago:

https://groups.google.com/d/topic/qubes-devel/j7fjU4Bevfo/discussion

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Andrew David Wong (Axon)
Community Manager, Qubes OS
https://www.qubes-os.org

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