backup/migration tool

[marmarek]

Reported by joanna on 16 Jun 2010 13:11 UTC
A simple qvm-backup too that would let people:

• backup their appvms
• restore from backup -- taking care about also restoring qubes.xml and app menues.

The backup function should take into account whether given appvm is updatebable or not (if it is, it should also copy its cow storage). Also, any temaplate vms that are not installed from rpms (i.e. have been cloned) should be backed up.

This is needed now for people to smoothly transition from Alpha 1 to Alpha 2.

Migrated-From: https://wiki.qubes-os.org/ticket/47

[marmarek]

Comment by joanna on 29 Jun 2010 16:55 UTC
Implemented in qubes-core-dom0 1.1.7 as qvm-backup and qvm-backup-restore tools.

qvm-backup also uploaded to:
http://qubes-os.org/yum/misc/qvm-backup

so that people could use it on Alpha 1 (qubes-core-1.1.x will not run on F12) to backup thier machines and migrate to Alpha 2.

[marmarek]

Comment by joanna on 29 Jun 2010 16:55 UTC
Implemented in qubes-core-dom0 1.1.7 as qvm-backup and qvm-backup-restore tools.

qvm-backup also uploaded to:
http://qubes-os.org/yum/misc/qvm-backup

so that people could use it on Alpha 1 (qubes-core-1.1.x will not run on F12) to backup thier machines and migrate to Alpha 2.