Backup using wyng-backup / wyng-util-qubes on btrfs not working

@egal There’s no issue with using Wyng on Btrfs except for a matter of initial setup. Wyng requires that the –local storage path on Btrfs end with a subvolume. The util handles the local parameter automatically for you when backing up, based on where Qubes is storing volumes, but it can’t do the initial step of creating a subvolume.

There is a script that can convert the Qubes storage dir to a subvolume. If you used the default Qubes Btrfs setup then you would run it like this:

qvm-shutdown --all --force
sudo bash convert-dir-to-subvol.sh /var/lib/qubes

If you didn’t use the default Qubes Btrfs setup you can find the dir path with the qvm-pool command.

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