Sync qubes and remain offline? (thru update proxy?)

User Support
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Nice. Related but off topic: do you know if there is a non-hacky way to get apps in offline qubes to sync thru that proxy, and remain offline?

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One could create a Qubes “wormhole” using TCP via RPC.

With, something like this:

In dom0:

$ echo 'qubes.ConnectTCP +8082 ems_pseudo_offline_node some_node_with_tinyproxy_running allow' >> sudo tee -a /etc/qubes/policy.d/30-user-networking.policy

In ems_pseudo_offline_node:

Temporarily:

$ qvm-connect-tcp 8082:some_node_with_tinyproxy_running:8082

Permanently:

$ echo 'qvm-connect-tcp 8082:some_node_with_tinyproxy_running:8082' >> /rw/config/rc.local

Although with this approach, I’m not sure I’d consider ems_pseudo_offline_node as “offline” any longer.

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Created a dedicated thread for this, since it’s very on-topic in User Support.

4

You could also use rsync or syncthing over qrexec.
I’ve salted both at https://github.com/unman/cacher, and there are
packages from qvm-task for ready
set up.
You can use syncthing between qubes, and link to a network connected
syncthing qube, if you want to take data off the Qube box.

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Much better option long term as, tinyproxy has proven quite frail for my tastes. But, question was asked about using it so, posed an option to do so.