Backup Restore fails, causes hard system freeze with multiple and/or large (50gb+) VMs?

[ben-grande]

@recliningmacaw

I also noticed that dom0 only had about 500mb of space remaining. It appears that the backup file chunks are filling dom0’s root volume and may be freezing the system.

I don’t know much about backups but if you don’t have enough space on dom0 home directory, increase it:

% df -Th /home/user
Filesystem                  Type  Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/mapper/qubes_dom0-root ext4   50G   33G   15G  70% /

Resize dom0

Just in case anyone needs help with this to resize dom0 from say 20G to 50G. I needed the extra space in order to install the kali community qubes template. Run these in dom0 terminal: sudo lvresize --size 50G /dev/mapper/qubes_dom0-root sudo resize2fs /dev/mapper/qubes_dom0-root

I don’t think you need to increase to the size of your home dir to be the same as the backup size, try just increasing to 50G first and see how it goes. Don’t extend too much if you don’t have too much disk available, as LVM volumes can’t shrink safely.