Add xmlstarlet command

Also update the backup filename's date to avoid anachronisms in the
resulting example qube list (e.g. a backup of fedora-37 in 2015)
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Rusty Bird 2023-04-15 10:45:27 +00:00
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@ -79,7 +79,7 @@ any GNU/Linux system.
1. Untar the backup metadata from the main backup file.
[user@restore ~]$ tar -i -xvf qubes-backup-2015-06-05T123456 \
[user@restore ~]$ tar -i -xvf qubes-backup-2023-04-05T123456 \
backup-header backup-header.hmac qubes.xml.000.enc
backup-header
backup-header.hmac
@ -139,11 +139,39 @@ any GNU/Linux system.
-d` in the command above. You might need to install a package of the same
name (in this example, `bzip2`) through your distribution's package manager.
7. Search inside of `qubes.xml` for the `backup-path` property of the qube
whose data you wish to restore. Using the value of this property (e.g.
`vm123/`), untar the necessary data files:
7. Search inside of the `qubes.xml` file for the `backup-path` of the qube
whose data you wish to restore. If you install the `xmlstarlet` package, the
following command will convert `qubes.xml` to a friendlier listing for this
purpose:
[user@restore ~]$ tar -i -xvf qubes-backup-2015-06-05T123456 vm123/
[user@restore ~]$ xmlstarlet sel -T -t -m //domain \
-v 'concat(.//property[@name="name"], " ", .//feature[@name="backup-path"])' \
-n qubes.xml
anon-whonix
debian-11
default-mgmt-dvm
disp2345
fedora-37
fedora-37-dvm
personal vm123/
sys-firewall
sys-net
sys-usb
untrusted
vault vm321/
whonix-gw-16
whonix-ws-16
whonix-ws-16-dvm
work
The example output above shows that the backup file includes a qube named
`personal` and a qube named `vault`, with `backup-path` values of `vm123/`
and `vm321/` respectively. (Every other listed qube was not selected to be
included in the backup file.) Use the corresponding value to untar the
necessary data files of the qube:
[user@restore ~]$ tar -i -xvf qubes-backup-2023-04-05T123456 vm123/
8. Verify and decrypt the backed up data, decompress it, and extract it.