Backup Fails since upgrade to 4.1 (unless qubes are all shut down)

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Could it be this?

Backup Qubes Failing (write error: Read-only file system)

Qubes 4.0.3 backups have started failing in the last few days. I’m running the backup utility to a USB hard drive mounted to one of the appVM’s. It worked fine for a month or so, but has just started failing out of the blue. It gets to about 11% (usually around 20 GB or so), then throws this error and dismounts the drive: Error: Writing backups to VM backup failed: cat: write error: Read-only file system I ran fdisk and it doesn’t look like there are no issues with the drive (it’s only about a…

Also, is secondary disk internal, or external (USB, esata…). Did you try to write to it, before backing up?

Backup fails to complete - disk full? error msg

ok new to Qubes - was thinking about getting a new mac mini to have a more secure platform than just Ubuntu on x86. So far i like Qubes and the concepts behind it. I have everything setup the way i want to except for backups. It seems like large appVMs wont back up. Small ones do. Seems like < 4.7G is the limit I can backup multiple smaller VMs as long as the total size isn’t “large”. I can backup smaller VMs that are running as well. I have a Samsung USB 3.2 SSD 500 GB that is recognized …

Backups blocked at one point

I have had a somewhat similar problem with R4.0.4. Perhaps it’s related? My issue was that the USB disk device was somehow partially dismounting and then the backup process just hung while waiting for a write to complete. There does not appear to be any kind of deadman’s switch/timer while writing so it just hangs indefinitely. If I fully dismount the drive and then remount it then the backup has continued when the destination became writable again. This only seems to happen if I am using the …