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Curious about this as well? FireTV’s and Kodi. Privoxy is causing issue with server timeouts and login using Emby.

If you’re not anal about your poster art then yes, it can be recreated easily. Alternatively, you could store your art in a remote folder and just back that up. The bigger issue with the Plex data (assume it’s similar to Emby as that’s what I use) than the size is the sheer number of small files. Doesn’t lend it itself well to backups or copies.

Checkout URBackup Docker. I think xml backup with this plugin combined with VM backup using URBackup is the best path right now.

So if the Umask is set to 000 in the docker settings, getting tower/nobody permissions is expected? If I want to be able to manually delete backups thru a Windows client should I set the umask to 775 or something else? EDIT: actually the URBackup files can be deleted within my VM client even with tower/nobody. I'm having an issue with the new CA Backup which sounds like a few are having as well.

See this post and subsequent responses:

yeah, ok. This is why I was mixing terminology. I'll go the compressed route with the bootable ISO from URBackup.

So I did a manual image backup and my disk did spin down so we'll see. Thanks!

Thanks for the link. Makes sense now. Is there some reason URBackup would be keeping my disk spun up in the array? It doesn’t seem to spin down unless I manually do it?

FYI, I’m using the compression. Maybe try it with to see?

FYI, I'm getting on average about 400 MBit/sec on the backup rate

Yeah, sorry. Bad terminology on my part.

Ah ok, this makes sense. But is the URBackup boot CD an ISO I need to download somewhere?

Sorry for the n00b vm question but I’m a bit confused on how the iso backup and vdisk file interact if I boot my vm from the iso backup? I assume if I boot from the backup then at some point I’ll switch back to booting from the vdisk file but what else do I have to do before switching back?

Well, it appears to me that with an image backup, you get a mountable ISO file. My question is in the case of a corrupt vdisk image file, what's the process for restoring the backup? It feels like I have to recreate the vm (from saved xml file) but then how do I get the contents of the image into the new vdisk file? Mount the image with unassigned devices and copy the contents over manually or boot from the ISO and then what? EDIT: Also I'm noticing that the disk in my array where I have the backup folder is not spinning down even though I only have image backup enabled on a 7 day cycle?

Also, here's what my first backup looks like: Does this seem correct for a vm installation of Windows 10?

Thanks. I think I just want to setup image backups for my vm inside my Windows client. I'll ask for more details on the restoration process over there. Appreciate the help!

Have you tried to restore a backup yet? If so, what exactly is the process? I don't want to end up like @K1LLA_KING_KING

Nice to see you here! I just did my first backup and it took about 10 min or less for a 35GB image. Based on JonathanM's response in the other thread, I'm wondering what else besides the image backup I should be worried about (e.g. xml):?

Checking out URBackup now. For a VM, am I better off just backing up the vdisk image or should I setup the Windows client with URBackup and do it that way? I guess the downside of the vdisk file is the size but if size isn't an issue seems like an easier way to go? If I go the Windows client route and I'm mainly concerned about the OS getting backed up with latest configuration, should I just do an image backup?

Thanks...that did it.

yeah, it's set to virbr0. Should I set it to vhost0?

Ok, so I just went ahead and reinstalled the Windows 10 VM. Everything is good except my Redhat virtio ethernet adapter has the wrong IPv4 address configuration. My router should be assigning the address in the 192.168.1.xxx range but virtio is showing 192.168.122.xxx range. Same issue with the default gateway (192.168.122.1 instead of 192.168.1.1). I tried assigning a fixed IP address in the proper range but then I lose all connection (media disconnected). Any idea why the dhcp isn't assigning correctly?

+1 on this. Recently corrupted a vm and prefer not to go through having to set it up again.

No, it just says it's locked. I used the command prompt to try rebuilding the BCD but it doesn't find a partition with Windows on it. Not a good sign. I could just rebuild the vm but I'm pretty sure I used a Win 8 license to upgrade to Win 10. I'll have to see if that license will work on a Win 10 iso for install but I'm not optimistic...

Ok, setting the ISO to boot order 1 got me into the tool. As expected, it says it couldn't repair my drive. When I went to the reset options (keep my files), it says my drive is locked?