manilx

I just forced a flash backup (with imediate copy to remote, setting is blank), backup concluded but when I switch to offsite view nothing is shown. Also checking all other backups, nothing is shown in the offsite view. But offsite was done as i can see the data on the remote repo.

One thing: I know that offsite copy is running but I don't know which one (container/flash/vm), there's no indication anywhere (which I'm aware off). You could put a copy progress on the individual items (as on local) and/or dashboard.

Awesome. My offsite copy is currently running, did run at 5:00 with local copy as separare run is new 😉 Will take a few hours.... Will have to check new stuff later. I have set offsite copy now to "weekly Sun 10:00"

What happens if I delete a backup? Deletes local AND remote copy? This is not clear. I do think local and remote backups should be both shown here, so that I can choose from where to restore. The local may be corrupt/deleted and I need to restore from remote.

Does this also apply to the remote repo?

How do we restore from the remote location? Only the local are shown...?

Flash restore, just tried. Actually I thought nothing happening and clicked the "download" multiple times, got them respectively. Make a progressbar in the GUI as on the backups..... Will try the remote backups tomorrow and report. EDIT: just tried it, only password works fine. Tried with a flash backup. Went just fine. One change: the user not necessarily wants to replicate the backup each time (bandwidth, speed etc). With backrest i backed up locally on a daily basis but remotely just on sunday.... Would be better to separate remotes from the normal schedule (easy, 99% is done 😉 )

P.S. I would prefer for the restore to be a zip file, which can used by the Unraid usb flash creator software as is, no manual copy. And just make it a downloadable link directly from the restore, no need to look up in the target.

Tried a flash restore for the 1st time, got this: Looked the target and this was created: With respective content in it, so I don't know the state of this. And no way to know because error message has no details,

Regarding remote paths: My rest server only needs password not user, so I leave user blank? Also, where do I add the backup paths for remote? I want to keep the local ones, which are set. Remote is for additional offsite. From what I see now it's either local or....

🙏 👏 Wow. I must say that the speed you implement the improvements is awesome. I'm running this now in parallel with Backrest/Scripts for this week and then switch over. This might be the missing link for many as backups on Unraid is a PITA with nothing build-in from the start, never understood that. I havd/had QNAP/Synology and it's perfect there. It's been a pleasure to help.

Regarding notifications: Forget implementing pushover etc. We have the standard Unraid notifications, which can be pushed to those services. Just add an option to have the notifications received in Unraid:

Trying restores now: Container without data folders. restored just fine! Nice one. Before trying to restore some with data folders I need to know the following: Do you save the folder permissions (appdata and other folders)? As some need specific permissions as you know. So a full restore must set the correct/old permissions.

fixed also 😉

Just tried latest update. Live update is fixed. Leftover files are deleted

BUG: I did run a live update on all VM's: went fine Subsequent runs have the error again vm live backup: snapshot: virshcli: snapshot-create-as: error: unsupported configuration: external snapshot file for disk hdc already exists and is not a block device: [path] Reason: Again there is a leftover in the domains folders: This should auto-delete

ToDo: Remote targets, not only rclone (don't use it). I have a restic server remotely and attach it to backrest via rest:http://server:port/folder Also S3 as target would be nice. (no rclone) ToDo: Pushover notifications (and others). Don't use webhooks or matrix....

One thing which I still don't get: You mentioned "- Containers with no data folder: they now show "Config only" instead of a plain "done", so it's clear no data snapshot was made (the container definition is still saved, so it can be recreated)." I get this on a container, which backs up: There is no backup, how do I restore the container when it is deleted? (Apart from the UR appstore but If I deleted the yaml I can't here) What if I want to restore a previous config? I might have altered stuff wrongly.

All VM's backuing up live now ✌

Hi on all points you've implemented. Thx! I'm just giving my user feedback once I encounter it, so excuse the "many" messages. I've just updated and put it as it's test.

When trying to restore files from a backup, the shown folders should expandable/collapsible as in a normal file browser, it is not easy as it is to find a file to restore:

VM backup is weird. I have one VM which backups live fine, another one, which is a clone of it (with some additional stuff installed) shuts down. Just run a test on each. After this test I now also get this: EDIT: looked at the target and found another lock file in there. Deleted it and backups display. Something is buggy with log files also

Answering myself: deleting all files in the locks folder in the repo/containers. Should be an option to do this from Bombvault

Nothing is using the repo. I get this, how to fix?

Do you run restic prune jobs, to reduce the backup size?