qvm-backup-restore: Consider verify-only option

[marmarek]

Reported by axon on 1 Jun 2014 09:24 UTC
"Backups always succeed. It's restores that fail."

Discussion: https://groups.google.com/d/topic/qubes-devel/kZn0XgkcMeQ/discussion

Migrated-From: https://wiki.qubes-os.org/ticket/863

[marmarek]

Modified by marmarek on 12 Sep 2014 08:05 UTC

[marmarek]

Modified by marmarek on 12 Sep 2014 08:05 UTC

[marmarek]

Comment by marmarek on 15 Sep 2014 23:54 UTC
There is a bug in tar (regarding creating multi-volume archive of sparse files), which affect Qubes backups. Because we are really close to final Qubes R2, it is really bad time for major change like backup format, so as a temporary mitigation, we've decided to implement at least backup verify option as part of R2.

[marmarek]

Comment by marmarek on 15 Sep 2014 23:54 UTC
There is a bug in tar (regarding creating multi-volume archive of sparse files), which affect Qubes backups. Because we are really close to final Qubes R2, it is really bad time for major change like backup format, so as a temporary mitigation, we've decided to implement at least backup verify option as part of R2.

[marmarek]

Comment by marmarek on 16 Sep 2014 00:22 UTC
Link to mentioned bug: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-tar/2014-09/msg00003.html

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Comment by marmarek on 16 Sep 2014 00:22 UTC
Link to mentioned bug: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-tar/2014-09/msg00003.html

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Modified by marmarek on 16 Sep 2014 03:42 UTC

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Modified by marmarek on 16 Sep 2014 03:42 UTC

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Comment by marmarek on 18 Sep 2014 23:49 UTC
http://git.qubes-os.org/?p=marmarek/core-admin.git;a=commit;h=f0bbb28398f8e0f5fd5eb2ee6a59a7a8a12e2e69

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Comment by marmarek on 18 Sep 2014 23:49 UTC
http://git.qubes-os.org/?p=marmarek/core-admin.git;a=commit;h=f0bbb28398f8e0f5fd5eb2ee6a59a7a8a12e2e69