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For a long time Qubes backup did not include symlinked files, which apparently is quite common practice for users with multiple disks (for example HDD + SSD). It is covered in documentation (https://www.qubes-os.org/doc/secondary-storage/), but better solution would be to simply include symlinked files. Restore of such files would (of course) not preserve the symlinks - normal files will be restored instead. But that's fine. If the user want to move the data to another location, he/she can do that and restore the symlink. The only possible breakage from this change is having a copy (instead of symlink) to a VM icon. But storing that symlink in a backup was broken for some time (because of --xform usage) and it is handled during restore, so not a real problem. This doesn't cover all the problems with symlinked VM images - the other one is qvm-block behaviour, which would treat such images as non-system disks, so easily detachable (which would break VM operation). But that's another story. Fixes QubesOS/qubes-issues#1384 |
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