Backing up ~100GB of which biggest is a ~40GB Win 2019 HVM.
System has 16GB RAM with 400MB initial / 4000MB max allocated to the backup qube. sys-{net,firewall,usb} the only other machines running.
I remember Chris Laprise made a great lvm snapshot based backup tool a few years ago, did this ever get closer integration into Qubes?
Can’t answer Q1 as I don’t have sufficient space on the local machine. How else might I rule out an issue writing directly to USB? Can some sort of debug logging be enabled?
Hi Andrew! Long time no speak, was on the qubes mailing list years ago and remember you were helpful. I’m going to be onboarding a few dozen users into Qubes in the next 6 months so trying to avoid/understand any pain points. This likely means looking again at Chris Laprise’ LVM based backup solution plus something lower level like Clonezilla. Would like to preserve security model by not connecting USB storage directly into Dom0.
Going to have a search around to see if there are any alternatives under discussion or if Qubes is going to change direction on this.
Will try your suggestion and also see if it’s only a problem with the Windows HVM included. Thanks again.