qubes.backup – Backup

exception qubes.backup.BackupCanceledError(msg, tmpdir=None)

Bases: qubes.exc.QubesException

class qubes.backup.Backup(app, vms_list=None, exclude_list=None, **kwargs)

Bases: object

Backup operation manager. Usage:

>>> app = qubes.Qubes()
>>> # optional - you can use 'None' to use default list (based on
>>> #  vm.include_in_backups property)
>>> vms = [app.domains[name] for name in ['my-vm1', 'my-vm2', 'my-vm3']]
>>> exclude_vms = []
>>> options = {
>>>     'compressed': True,
>>>     'passphrase': 'This is very weak backup passphrase',
>>>     'target_vm': app.domains['sys-usb'],
>>>     'target_dir': '/media/disk',
>>> }
>>> backup_op = Backup(app, vms, exclude_vms, **options)
>>> print(backup_op.get_backup_summary())
>>> asyncio.get_event_loop().run_until_complete(backup_op.backup_do())

See attributes of this object for all available options.

app = None

application object

backup_id = None

backup ID, needs to be unique (for a given user), not necessary unpredictable; automatically generated

chunk_size = None

progress of the backup - bytes handled of the current VM

compressed = None

should the backup be compressed?

compression_filter = None

custom compression filter; a program which process stdin to stdout

passphrase = None

what passphrase should be used to intergrity protect (and encrypt) the backup; required

progress_callback = None

callback for progress reporting. Will be called with one argument - progress in percents

target_dir = None

directory to save backup in (either in dom0 or target VM, depending on target_vm

target_vm = None

VM to which backup should be sent (if any)

tmpdir = None

directory for temporary files - set after creating the directory

total_backup_bytes = None

total backup size (set by get_files_to_backup())

class qubes.backup.BackupHeader(version=None, encrypted=None, compressed=None, compression_filter=None, hmac_algorithm=None, crypto_algorithm=None, backup_id=None)

Bases: object

Structure describing backup-header file included as the first file in backup archive

qubes.backup.handle_streams(stream_in, stream_out, size_limit=None, progress_callback=None)

Copy stream_in to all streams_out and monitor all mentioned processes. If any of them terminate with non-zero code, interrupt the process. Copy at most size_limit data (if given).

Parameters:

• stream_in – StreamReader object to read data from
• stream_out – StreamWriter object to write data to
• size_limit – int maximum data amount to process
• progress_callback – callable function to report progress, will be given copied data size (it should accumulate internally)

Returns:

“size_limit” or None (no error)

qubes.backup.launch_proc_with_pty(args, stdin=None, stdout=None, stderr=None, echo=True)

Similar to pty.fork, but handle stdin/stdout according to parameters instead of connecting to the pty

:return tuple (subprocess.Popen, pty_master)

qubes.backup.launch_scrypt(action, input_name, output_name, passphrase)

Launch ‘scrypt’ process, pass passphrase to it and return subprocess.Popen object.

Parameters:

• action – ‘enc’ or ‘dec’
• input_name – input path or ‘-’ for stdin
• output_name – output path or ‘-’ for stdout
• passphrase (bytes) – passphrase

Returns:

subprocess.Popen object