chodeus

Hey @Squid , I’ve opened 5 PRs for issues I found while troubleshooting other unraid things. I know you’re busy so I don’t expect anything to come from these PRs but I thought I’d write them in case you were interested. - #5: Removed containers stay gone (includes #4) - #6: Fixes the plugin update delay and failure notices - #7: Leaves third-party containers alone - #8: Pulls before stopping, rebuilds network children - #9: Settings page works on phones

Are the containers that aren't updating using another container as it's network?

There’s also instructions in the support thread for the BETA. https://forums.unraid.net/topic/136995-pluginbeta-appdatabackup/page/5/#findComment-1639167 Thankyou very much!

Not a problem but “my” version isn’t out in the stable version yet. I really need people to test the BETA and provide feedback so Kluthr can look at pushing it to stable. I’ve been using it for about a month or so now and haven’t had any issues but I’m also on 7.3.3. You’ll have issues with the stable release once you update to 7.4.0 but these issues are “resolved” in the BETA. Any chance you’d care to load up the BETA version and see the functionality and provide feedback?

Oh I see. I think the custom CSS path you’ve taken to achieve that is really good and that’s the point of having that available to people. If you find it buggy for whatever reason let me know and I’ll see if there’s a tidy way to incorporate that option as a setting. I’m just trying to avoid more and more toggles and settings and drop down menus.

Preview settings, change it to Only Icon and you can select to see container status from the next drop down. It'll come out like this As you can see it also removes the container name, if that's the minimalist look you're going for.

Not a problem! Glad you got it sorted

This is the first report I’ve had about any issues. If you want me to figure out if it’s a folderview3 issue or something else you’ve done I’m going to need your diagnostic/debug. Can you generate one and PM it to me.

Sorry I don’t understand your first feature request. Do you want update checks added to Folderview? I’m going to need you to elaborate further. Also, your second request is already possible. Catch-all folders — a folder whose regex is ^ collects every container not assigned to or matched by another folder; explicit assignments always beat regex captures

Hi all, if you've been having issues or are using Unraid 7.4, please load the beta version of the plugin. You can follow the guidance here https://forums.unraid.net/topic/136995-pluginbeta-appdatabackup/page/5/#findComment-1639167 Would be very beneficial if you are able to load it and provide feedback, positive feedback also, so we can eventually get this polished and merged to the main stable release.

Hi all, @KluthR has kindly merged the beta release I proposed which includes a lot of fixes and some new features. I would love your feedback, including positive feedback, so we can look at getting a stable release out for everyone not willing to load the beta. Thankyou to the others that contributed to this too! You can run install the beta next to your stable release but please STOP the schedule on your main release. There is also a 1 click button at the top of the BETA release to copy your config over to the beta release. Do not run the schedule on main and beta at the same time, do 1 or the other. https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Commifreak/unraid-appdata.backup/master/appdata.backup.beta.plg 2026.10.16b1➕ Optional snapshot mode for ZFS and btrfs: Containers can restart after taking the snapshot while the backup continues ➕ Added an extra backup schedule for selected containers, with its own destination, retention and settings ➕ New backups include checksums, which can be checked using the new Verify button on the Restore page ➕ Added a backup summary showing the latest backup, retained sets, next scheduled run and available space ➕ Added warnings for outdated backups and low backup destination space ➕ Restore confirmation now shows the backup's age, destination and whether newer container backups exist in the other backup destination 🩹 Fix flash drive backup on Unraid 7.4, including ZIP validation and error reporting 🩹 Fix non-numeric container autostart delays aborting the backup. Thanks to Shyrka973 🩹 Fix exclusions and source lists not being parsed correctly with LF-only line endings. Thanks to rnkang 🩹 Fix container stop order not always being the reverse of the start order 🩹 Containers which fail to stop are no longer backed up while still running 🩹 Improve handling of slow container stops and unreadable container states 🩹 Fix pre-container scripts returning exit code 2 not skipping backups in stop-all mode 🩹 Fix skipped containers being included when missing from the saved start order 🩹 Fix failed container updates being reported as successful; containers with failed backups are no longer updated 🩹 Fix failed or aborted runs being reported as successful or applying retention 🩹 Improve retention handling to protect successful backups and unrelated folders, while allowing failed sets to age out 🩹 Fix nested volume exclusions and symlink handling for extra files 🩹 Fix settings migration and prevent container settings being lost when Docker returns no containers 🩹 Fix concurrent jobs being able to start at the same time within the same plugin installation 🩹 Improve PHP crash reporting, including notifications and a list of containers left stopped 🩹 Fix shell escaping in notifications and HTML escaping in logs and settings 🩹 State-changing actions now require POST requests with Unraid's CSRF protection; job scripts can only run from the command line 🔧 Restoring to the original folders now stops running containers before extraction and starts them again afterwards 🔧 Restore now checks for abort requests after stopping a container and reports restart failures 🔧 Removed containers are skipped instead of reporting a start error. Thanks to kajusnau 🔧 Improved Settings and Restore page layouts on Unraid 7, folder pickers and start-order lists 🔧 Added numbered backup steps, clearer log messages and click-to-open help for settings 🔧 Job buttons are disabled while another job is running, with an explanation 🔧 Improved wording throughout the plugin. Thanks to kajusnau and GlassedSilver

I think you might need to share a diagnostic file of your server to figure this one out.

Just wanted to say thanks for @hernandito s idea with adding the Variables tab to advanced preview. This is what it looks like and is scrollable for more details. If you have any suggestions or ideas for this tab or anywhere else in FV3 please let me know! I'm happy to look at simple QOL features while we are still waiting to hear about a timeline for Unraid 8.

I’m working on an update for this plugin and I’d love to understand your use case to see if there’s a gap there or not considering this plugin is primarily for backing up container appdata.

Stable releases are stable releases for a reason. It’s also a patch release, so it’s considered “more safe” than a minor or major release. In saying that, there’s no saying something unavoidable may occur, sometimes “shit happens”

Thank you for the efforts and this release!

This is minor but it's dev console log spam, unrelated to the latest release. However: nut-dw 2026.06.18, Unraid 7.3.2 Ive noticed that on the Dashboard, the console logs this twice on every NUT refresh (every 10 s): Tooltipster: one or more tooltips are already attached to the element below. Ignoring. <span class="nutalarms tooltipstered" style="display: none;" title></span>

The plugin works perfectly fine for me on 7.3.2... Have you actually inspected the container to prove it hasn't updated? The syslog doesnt call out each image that gets updated.

Install link: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/masterwishx/ca.mover.tuning/beta/plugins/ca.mover.tuning.plgIf you install the beta, please send me your mover tuning debug package after a scheduled run so I can make sure nothing has been missed. I've tested this on my ZFS cache pool -> XFS array. Most of the changelog is correcting behaviours to match the setting and the tooltip, so if you have these configured they should now work as intended. Also settings to be greyed out when conflicting settings are set. Changelog: If you run the beta build please send me your debug zip after a run so I can validate it. To rollback to the stable release, force install https://raw.githubusercontent.com/masterwishx/ca.mover.tuning/master/plugins/ca.mover.tuning.plg

@NichollsGlen Yes, this is coming in Unraid 7.4 but I've drafted something for this plugin that should be available in the next release (will take further testing when 7.4 stable is released). Check the mover's pid file rather than the process name. Every move writes its process id to /var/run/mover.pid while it runs: Mover Tuning's own runs (age_mover), the per-share Move (share_mover) and Unraid's own mover. So in a script: if pid=$(cat /var/run/mover.pid 2>/dev/null) && grep -qa mover "/proc/$pid/cmdline" 2>/dev/null; then echo "a move is running" fiAlso possible, it is drafted and I'll be testing this soon. See my post below regarding the beta install link, these options are included in that beta.

Epic! Sorry for the stuff around!

Thankyou for trying out the patch, I'm just pushing it to main now. You're now on the beta release branch, I've pushed this fix to main if you want to use the URL to force install (https://raw.githubusercontent.com/chodeus/folder.view3/main/folder.view3.plg) or in CLI plugin install https://raw.githubusercontent.com/chodeus/folder.view3/main/folder.view3.plg forced It is related to broken or missing autostart configs which could simply be because you dont have any containers set to autostart. Unfortunately the debug package in the plugin wont tell me why exactly but I plan on fixing that this week.

@akai008 @sitheris your issue could potentially be related to your autostart file. Unfortunately the debug json I asked for wont give this detail so I need to work on improving that. I've prepared this PR if you want to test and validate please. You can install this in CLI, the same way you rolled back to the previous version or you can copy and paste the URL into the manual plugin install section of the Install Plugin page. plugin install https://github.com/chodeus/folder.view3/releases/download/pr-98-2026.09.17.1.0260919022656/folder.view3.plg forced

If you're also experiencing issues can you also send me your debug files so I can fix what is broken or let you know what happened?

Can you please send me your debug files? Or your docker.json? DEBUG MODE To enable debug mode, type fv3debug on any FolderView3 page (Docker, VM, or Dashboard). You should see a console message confirming it's enabled. Debug output appears in the browser console (F12) with a [FV3] prefix. State persists across page loads — type fv3debug again to disable. For PHP server-side debug: run touch /tmp/fv3_debug_enabled on the Unraid console. Logs write to /tmp/folder_view3_php_debug.log. If you have a problem you will likely be asked to share the console output.