Simple/Brutal encrypted full system backup (Veracrypt)?

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I’m reminded of this post, which may be relevant to you:

How do you organize your backups?

Why do I like raw disk backups? Upgrading Qubes, specifically dom0, has the risk of either bricking boot or networking. Both happened to me several times in the past. These are situations which are difficult to recover from and break productivity. How else could I test if upgrades with reasonable certainty that my system won’t get bricked? Perhaps by having an identical spare notebook of the same type with the very same hardware. As for the time required to perform a raw disk backup, it’s goi…

As for Veracrypt, my understanding is that it should not be necessary, since Qubes already uses LUKS full-disk encryption (except /boot). In other words, you would be cloning a disk that’s already encrypted.