This app is amazing! I have been using it for years but I am definitely now doing something wrong!! I have gluetunvpn running and I have some dockers that use this network. When the backup runs some of the other containers fail to start. I have been trying to troubleshoot this, but I am now a little stuck!! I have noticed that I did have my apps the wrong way round in the 'Start order' So now Gluetun is at the bottom and my other containers are at the top. So this means the gluetun gets backed up first, updated and started. So gluetun backed up at 03:03 and succeeded [21.06.2026 03:03:00][debug][GluetunVPN] Volume '/mnt/user/appdata/gluetun' IS within AppdataPath '/mnt/user/appdata'!
[21.06.2026 03:03:00][][GluetunVPN] Should NOT backup external volumes, sanitizing them...
[21.06.2026 03:03:00][debug][GluetunVPN] Volume '/mnt/user/appdata/gluetun' IS within AppdataPath '/mnt/user/appdata'!
[21.06.2026 03:03:00][][GluetunVPN] Calculated volumes to back up: /mnt/user/appdata/gluetun
[21.06.2026 03:03:00][debug][GluetunVPN] Target archive: /mnt/user/backup/appdata_backup/ab_20260621_030002/GluetunVPN.tar.gz
[21.06.2026 03:03:00][debug][GluetunVPN] Generated tar command: --exclude '/usr/local/share/docker/tailscale_container_hook' -c -P -z -f '/mnt/user/backup/appdata_backup/ab_20260621_030002/GluetunVPN.tar.gz' '/mnt/user/appdata/gluetun'
[21.06.2026 03:03:00][][GluetunVPN] Backing up GluetunVPN...
[21.06.2026 03:03:00][debug][GluetunVPN] Tar out:
[21.06.2026 03:03:00][][GluetunVPN] Backup created without issues (took 00:00:00 (hours:mins:secs))
[21.06.2026 03:03:00][][GluetunVPN] Skipping verification for this container because its not wanted!
[21.06.2026 03:03:00][debug][GluetunVPN] Not executing script: Not set!
[21.06.2026 03:03:00][][GluetunVPN] Installing planned update for GluetunVPN...
[21.06.2026 03:03:03][][GluetunVPN] Starting GluetunVPN... (try #1) done!
Here you can see that sonarr started at 03:28 and failed to start:
[21.06.2026 03:28:36][debug][sonarr] Volume '/mnt/user/appdata/sonarr' IS within AppdataPath '/mnt/user/appdata'!
[21.06.2026 03:28:36][debug][sonarr] Volume '/mnt/user/appdata/sonarr' IS within AppdataPath '/mnt/user/appdata'!
[21.06.2026 03:28:36][][sonarr] Should NOT backup external volumes, sanitizing them...
[21.06.2026 03:28:36][debug][sonarr] Volume '/mnt/user/appdata/sonarr' IS within AppdataPath '/mnt/user/appdata'!
[21.06.2026 03:28:36][][sonarr] Calculated volumes to back up: /mnt/user/appdata/sonarr
[21.06.2026 03:28:36][debug][sonarr] Target archive: /mnt/user/backup/appdata_backup/ab_20260621_030002/sonarr.tar.gz
[21.06.2026 03:28:36][debug][sonarr] Generated tar command: --exclude '/usr/local/share/docker/tailscale_container_hook' -c -P -z -f '/mnt/user/backup/appdata_backup/ab_20260621_030002/sonarr.tar.gz' '/mnt/user/appdata/sonarr'
[21.06.2026 03:28:36][][sonarr] Backing up sonarr...
[21.06.2026 03:28:43][debug][sonarr] Tar out:
[21.06.2026 03:28:43][][sonarr] Backup created without issues (took 00:00:07 (hours:mins:secs))
[21.06.2026 03:28:43][][sonarr] Skipping verification for this container because its not wanted!
[21.06.2026 03:28:43][debug][sonarr] Not executing script: Not set!
[21.06.2026 03:28:43][][sonarr] Starting sonarr... (try #1) Container 'sonarr' did not started! - Code: Server error
[21.06.2026 03:28:48][][sonarr] Starting sonarr... (try #2) Container 'sonarr' did not started! - Code: Server error
[21.06.2026 03:28:53][][sonarr] Starting sonarr... (try #3) Container 'sonarr' did not started! - Code: Server error
[21.06.2026 03:28:53][][sonarr] Container 'sonarr' did not started after multiple tries, skipping. More infos in debug log
[21.06.2026 03:28:55][debug][sonarr] docker ps -a:
Array
(
[0] => CONTAINER ID IMAGE COMMAND CREATED STATUS PORTS NAMES
[1] => efa25f4b0b81 lscr.io/linuxserver/firefox "/init" 35 seconds ago Up 31 seconds firefox
[2] => 0089b3d99b44 pihole/pihole "start.sh" 2 minutes ago Up 2 minutes (healthy) binhex-official-pihole
[3] => 343cf7628d47 linuxserver/duplicati "/init" 3 minutes ago Up 3 minutes duplicati
[4] => 6ab407a953fd adminer "entrypoint.sh docke…" 25 minutes ago Created adminer
[5] => 9eb5ea083b7f tautulli/tautulli "./start.sh python T…" 25 minutes ago Up 25 minutes (healthy) tautulli
[6] => 422c05663e0e qmcgaw/gluetun "/opt/unraid/tailsca…" 25 minutes ago Up 25 minutes (healthy) 0.0.0.0:3000-3001->3000-3001/tcp, [::]:3000-3001->3000-3001/tcp, 0.0.0.0:5880->5880/tcp, [::]:5880->5880/tcp, 0.0.0.0:5990->5990/tcp, [::]:5990->5990/tcp, 0.0.0.0:6767->6767/tcp, [::]:6767->6767/tcp, 0.0.0.0:6881->6881/tcp, [::]:6881->6881/tcp, 0.0.0.0:7878->7878/tcp, [::]:7878->7878/tcp, 0.0.0.0:8000->8000/tcp, [::]:8000->8000/tcp, 1080/tcp, 1080/udp, 0.0.0.0:8112->8112/tcp, [::]:8112->8112/tcp, 0.0.0.0:8888->8888/tcp, [::]:8888->8888/tcp, 0.0.0.0:8989->8989/tcp, [::]:8989->8989/tcp, 0.0.0.0:9696->9696/tcp, [::]:9696->9696/tcp, 8388/tcp, 8388/udp, 0.0.0.0:58846->58846/tcp, [::]:58846->58846/tcp, 0.0.0.0:6881->6881/udp, [::]:6881->6881/udp GluetunVPN
[7] => f48cffe8e418 lscr.io/linuxserver/prowlarr "/init" 6 days ago Exited (128) 2 minutes ago prowlarr
[8] => f62cc172c6fa lscr.io/linuxserver/radarr "/init" 6 days ago Up 41 hours radarr
[9] => 84074e0729bc lscr.io/linuxserver/nextcloud "/init" 6 days ago Up 24 minutes nextcloud
[10] => 15914174190f jlesage/jdownloader-2 "/init" 6 days ago Up 41 hours JDownloader2
[11] => 278b5e198170 lscr.io/linuxserver/bazarr "/init" 6 days ago Up 41 hours bazarr
[12] => 54e0d7040941 mongo "docker-entrypoint.s…" 7 days ago Up 2 minutes MongoDB
[13] => 2513e61e7fb8 linuxserver/sonarr "/init" 7 days ago Exited (128) 18 seconds ago sonarr
[14] => 2875c7941aa8 lscr.io/linuxserver/deluge "/init" 7 days ago Up 41 hours deluge
[15] => ed5b555f2c82 ghcr.io/haveagitgat/tdarr "/init" 7 days ago Created tdarr
[16] => 51638610e706 jlesage/filezilla "/init" 11 days ago Up 24 minutes FileZilla
[17] => 9fc7d4db72b9 linuxserver/duckdns "/init" 2 weeks ago Up 2 minutes duckdns
[18] => 443627fb1d18 lscr.io/linuxserver/mariadb "/init" 2 weeks ago Up 3 minutes mariadb
[19] => 64453ad755e7 jc21/nginx-proxy-manager "/init" 2 weeks ago Up 3 minutes Nginx-Proxy-Manager-Official
[20] => 3f8b845185b0 ghcr.io/imagegenius/immich "/init" 2 weeks ago Up 22 minutes immich
[21] => 0cdab2c885b4 lscr.io/linuxserver/unifi-network-application "/init" 2 weeks ago Up 24 minutes unifi-network-application
[22] => ac69de526bac drakkan/sftpgo "sftpgo serve" 3 weeks ago Up 22 minutes SFTPGo
[23] => e945f258f535 plexinc/pms-docker "/init" 4 weeks ago Up 16 minutes (healthy) Plex-Media-Server
[24] => 438fa916eb57 tensorchord/pgvecto-rs:pg16-v0.3.0 "docker-entrypoint.s…" 5 weeks ago Up 25 minutes PostgreSQL_Immich
[25] => 0670cd2ccc6d vaultwarden/server "/start.sh" 6 weeks ago Up 3 minutes (healthy) bitwardenrs
[26] => 756da835e256 ghcr.io/lovelaze/nebula-sync:latest "nebula-sync run" 6 weeks ago Up 25 minutes (healthy) nebula-sync
[27] => f6f702206033 rdavidoff/twitch-channel-points-miner-v2:latest "python run.py" 3 months ago Up 22 minutes Twitch-Channel-Points-Miner
[28] => 8508c20e174b jasonbean/guacamole "/etc/firstrun/first…" 4 months ago Up 22 minutes ApacheGuacamole
[29] => 9d41a93e75f6 louislam/uptime-kuma "/usr/bin/dumb-init …" 4 months ago Up 24 minutes (healthy) UptimeKuma
)
[21.06.2026 03:28:55][][sonarr] The container has a delay set, waiting 10 seconds before carrying on It says to check the debug log, but this is from the Appdata backup debug log. If I then go into Docker I can start sonarr without issue. I get this with some, but not all, of my docker containers that run under gluetun. Can anyone see what I am doing wrong here?