Loosing some data on reboot

olihough · December 11, 2015, 4:55am

I’m getting a bit confused on how Qubes is only persisting some data

for example:

the torrc for sys-whonix is persisted across host reboots but the hostnames and keys for my hidden services don’t persist.

Should I be mirroring all my actions into the template VMs in order for everything to persist across reboots?

Patrick · December 11, 2015, 10:37am

First of all, please learn about the Qubes default if you do not know this already (this applies to all non-Whonix templates currently):

In Qubes-Whonix 12 additionally the following are persisted:

github.com

Whonix/qubes-whonix/blob/5696071c29eb854dc3161797d7fdcef9377116f5/usr/lib/qubes-whonix/bind-directories#L39-L46


      
          BINDS=(
              '/rw/srv/whonix/var/lib/tor:/var/lib/tor'
              '/rw/srv/whonix/var/lib/whonix:/var/lib/whonix'
              '/rw/srv/whonix/var/lib/whonixcheck:/var/lib/whonixcheck'
              '/rw/srv/whonix/var/cache/whonix-setup-wizard:/var/cache/whonix-setup-wizard'
              '/rw/srv/qubes-whonix/var/cache/qubes-whonix:/var/cache/qubes-whonix'
              '/rw/srv/whonix/etc/tor:/etc/tor'
          )

Technical information:

/usr/lib/qubes-whonix/bind-directories:
https://github.com/Whonix/qubes-whonix/blob/Whonix12/usr/lib/qubes-whonix/bind-directories

This is also currently subject for discussion, changes, etc. for Whonix 13 and above, see:
⚓ T414 upstream bind-directories functionality to Qubes