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Thanks for the reply mate, i've been working so it took till now to notice! I absolutely will make another script with that, seems like the most straightforward option. i like straightforward. Having said that, always interested to hear new ideas and software, i definitely enjoyed the simple gui of duplicati. Let me know if you find anything!

Hi everyone, Been using unraid on a basic fujitsu tower server, 6 x 1 tb disks i got from work(am IT person, mostly windows) for a good few years now, I find it really useful for storing stuff, running things overnight on vms etc. Most of the stuff on here or r/homelab makes me extra jealous, but that's another story. Most of the data on my array is either pictures, music or videos, so there are a variety of big files and lots of smaller ones if that impacts any recommendations. Previously i had been using the duplicati docker to backup to a big usb drive(unassigned devices), but as i check the forums around i see a lot of people making recommendations to not use it, tbh i haven't had to use it in anger yet, nor have i done a test restore, so i'm not sure on how that would go. But i also know what people can be like when they take against something. Basically i'm looking for a relatively unbiased opinion on what to do moving forward. So, since all i really need/have space for on the backup drive is a standard copy of whats on the array. Which is absolutely fine with me, no compression surely means it will be a bit easier on the processing power to do said compression(ofcourse trading off with an increased file size to transfer). I tried using user scripts plugin and several rsync lines(rsync -avzh /mnt/user/share /mnt/disks/SGT/rsync_backup/share ), which seemed fine, takes forever but that's usb writing for you. The issue arises when i need to cancel the backup, i abort the user script, which suggests it has been aborted but i can see the (meagre)processor is getting hammered still, htop shows several of the rync lines still running, even using the kill command on the processes only calmed the processor down a bit and unraid wouldnt even restart. So this doesn't seem like its hugely fit for my purposes at least, i would prefer a docker app or something that wouldn't have these issues - unless someone can help with me with the script and i did something stupid. TLDR: i was using duplicati, then moved to rync user script, but trying to cancel it while running is a giant ballache. Recommend me a backup application to transfer to a local usb drive? or troubleshoot my crappy rsync script Cheers everyone