jpowell8672

If you have a parity drive then replace it with 8TB drive and rebuild parity then replace one data drive at a time to rebuild the drive then the next one if all went well with out any errors or problems.

You will want to move your cache drive contents to array before upgrading your cache drive then move back to new cache drive.

Just move it over but good practice is to make a backup of USB drive and screenshot of array drives.

Not good to use sdx because on reboots drive letters can change, should use drives unique ID that does not change.

You could have installed a new VM already as suggested earlier but I guess this is a learning lesson if time does not matter.

Main Tab> Unassigned Devices Identification is ID

<disk type='block' device='disk'> <driver name='qemu' type='raw' cache='writeback'/> <source dev='/dev/disk/by-id/ata-Samsung_SSD_860_S3Z1NB0M229066F' index='1'/> <backingStore/> <target dev='hdc' bus='virtio'/> <boot order='1'/> <alias name='virtio-disk0'/> <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x06' function='0x0'/> </disk>

Ok so you are just putting your Windows 10 VM image on the SSD not installing Windows 10 to SSD. <disk type='file' device='disk'> <driver name='qemu' type='raw' cache='writeback'/> <source file='/mnt/cache/vdisk_share/vmname/vdisk1.img'/> <backingStore/> <target dev='hda' bus='virtio'/> <boot order='1'/> <alias name='virtio-disk0'/> <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x05' function='0x0'/> </disk>

https://wiki.unraid.net/index.php/UnRAID_6/VM_Management#Using_a_physical_disk_in_a_VM.2C_including_one_with_an_OS_already_installed

Since you are having so much trouble, setting up a fresh Windows 10 VM using your SSD would likely be much easier for you.

Are you setting up a new Windows 10 VM or trying to convert your original VM to your dedicated SSD?

<disk type='block' device='disk'> <driver name='qemu' type='raw' cache='writeback'/> <source dev='/dev/disk/by-id/ata-Samsung_SSD_860_S3Z1NB0M229066F' index='1'/> <backingStore/> <target dev='hdd' bus='sata'/> <boot order='1'/> <alias name='sata0-0-2'/> <address type='drive' controller='0' bus='0' target='0' unit='2'/> </disk>

Sorry meant: Primary vDisk Bus: Sata

Primary vDisk Bus: Sata

error: failed to connect to the hypervisor I also get this error on boot with 6.8 & 6.8.1, everything seems to be working OK though.

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Remove Unraid USB drive then connect to Windows PC and backup drive contents to PC. Then do fresh install of Unraid version you want on USB drive and copy the Config folder from your PC backup to the Unraid USB drive you just made. Plug USB back into your Unraid box and boot.

Can't you just do the backup without using snapshot feature? I could but would rather not take down my outside network with pfsense vm going down during backup.

I changed the backup location in vm backup settings to /mnt/cache/ by accident I was up long time tired made mistake of not changing in vm instead. pfsense does not natively support qemu-guest-agent at the moment, will snapshots still work ok?

I had snapshots enabled and it broke my pfsense vm and had to manually restore. Going to disable vm backup plugin for now and wait for you to work out the bugs. Thanks @JTok

2020-01-05 07:00 information: Windows 10 can be found on the system. attempting backup. 2020-01-05 07:00 information: creating local Windows 10.xml to work with during backup. 2020-01-05 07:00 information: /mnt/cache/backup/Windows 10 exists. continuing. 2020-01-05 07:00 information: skip_vm_shutdown is false and use_snapshots is 1. skipping vm shutdown procedure. Windows 10 is running. can_backup_vm set to y. 2020-01-05 07:00 information: actually_copy_files is 1. 2020-01-05 07:00 information: can_backup_vm flag is y. starting backup of Windows 10 configuration, nvram, and vdisk(s). sending incremental file list Windows 10.xml sent 7,392 bytes received 35 bytes 14,854.00 bytes/sec total size is 7,292 speedup is 0.98 2020-01-05 07:00 information: copy of Windows 10.xml to /mnt/cache/backup/Windows 10/20200105_0700_Windows 10.xml complete. sending incremental file list 6d8d5b31-ae31-9fdc-f498-fa9c73b2221a_VARS-pure-efi.fd sent 131,241 bytes received 35 bytes 262,552.00 bytes/sec total size is 131,072 speedup is 1.00 2020-01-05 07:00 information: copy of /etc/libvirt/qemu/nvram/6d8d5b31-ae31-9fdc-f498-fa9c73b2221a_VARS-pure-efi.fd to /mnt/cache/backup/Windows 10/20200105_0700_6d8d5b31-ae31-9fdc-f498-fa9c73b2221a_VARS-pure-efi.fd complete. 2020-01-05 07:00 information: extension for /mnt/user/isos/Win10_1903_V1_English_x64.iso on Windows 10 was found in vdisks_extensions_to_skip. skipping disk. 2020-01-05 07:00 information: extension for /mnt/user/isos/virtio-win-0.1.160-1.iso on Windows 10 was found in vdisks_extensions_to_skip. skipping disk. 2020-01-05 07:00 information: the extensions of the vdisks that were backed up are . 2020-01-05 07:00 information: vm_state is running. vm_original_state is running. not starting Windows 10. 2020-01-05 07:00 information: backup of Windows 10 to /mnt/cache/backup/Windows 10 completed. 2020-01-05 07:00 information: number of days to keep backups set to indefinitely. 2020-01-05 07:00 information: cleaning out backups over 3 in location /mnt/cache/backup/Windows 10/ 2020-01-05 07:00 information: did not find any config files to remove. 2020-01-05 07:00 information: did not find any nvram files to remove. /tmp/vmbackup/scripts/user-script.sh: line 2809: 😞 command not found 2020-01-05 07:00 information: did not find any image files to remove. 2020-01-05 07:00 information: removing local Windows 10.xml. removed 'Windows 10.xml' 2020-01-05 07:00 information: pfsense can be found on the system. attempting backup. 2020-01-05 07:00 information: creating local pfsense.xml to work with during backup. 2020-01-05 07:00 information: /mnt/cache/backup/pfsense exists. continuing. 2020-01-05 07:00 information: skip_vm_shutdown is false and use_snapshots is 1. skipping vm shutdown procedure. pfsense is running. can_backup_vm set to y. 2020-01-05 07:00 information: actually_copy_files is 1. 2020-01-05 07:00 information: can_backup_vm flag is y. starting backup of pfsense configuration, nvram, and vdisk(s). sending incremental file list pfsense.xml sent 7,574 bytes received 35 bytes 15,218.00 bytes/sec total size is 7,477 speedup is 0.98 2020-01-05 07:00 information: copy of pfsense.xml to /mnt/cache/backup/pfsense/20200105_0700_pfsense.xml complete. sending incremental file list 7ee726f1-17c6-3496-d3a2-cb1916f748eb_VARS-pure-efi.fd sent 131,240 bytes received 35 bytes 262,550.00 bytes/sec total size is 131,072 speedup is 1.00 2020-01-05 07:00 information: copy of /etc/libvirt/qemu/nvram/7ee726f1-17c6-3496-d3a2-cb1916f748eb_VARS-pure-efi.fd to /mnt/cache/backup/pfsense/20200105_0700_7ee726f1-17c6-3496-d3a2-cb1916f748eb_VARS-pure-efi.fd complete. 2020-01-05 07:00 information: extension for /mnt/user/isos/pfSense-CE-2.4.4-RELEASE-p3-amd64.iso on pfsense was found in vdisks_extensions_to_skip. skipping disk. 2020-01-05 07:00 failure: extension for /mnt/user/domains/pfsense/vdisk1.snap on pfsense is the same as the snapshot extension snap. disk will always be skipped. this usually means that the disk path in the config was not changed from /mnt/user. if disk path is correct, then try changing snapshot_extension or vdisk extension. 2020-01-05 07:00 information: extension for /mnt/user/domains/pfsense/vdisk1.snap on pfsense was found in vdisks_extensions_to_skip. skipping disk. 2020-01-05 07:00 information: the extensions of the vdisks that were backed up are . 2020-01-05 07:00 information: vm_state is running. vm_original_state is running. not starting pfsense. 2020-01-05 07:00 information: backup of pfsense to /mnt/cache/backup/pfsense completed. 2020-01-05 07:00 information: number of days to keep backups set to indefinitely. 2020-01-05 07:00 information: cleaning out backups over 3 in location /mnt/cache/backup/pfsense/ 2020-01-05 07:00 information: did not find any config files to remove. 2020-01-05 07:00 information: did not find any nvram files to remove. /tmp/vmbackup/scripts/user-script.sh: line 2809: 😞 command not found 2020-01-05 07:00 information: did not find any image files to remove. 2020-01-05 07:00 information: removing local pfsense.xml. removed 'pfsense.xml' 2020-01-05 07:00 information: finished attempt to backup Windows 10, pfsense to /mnt/cache/backup. 2020-01-05 07:00 information: cleaning out logs over 1. 2020-01-05 07:00 information: removed '/mnt/cache/backup/logs/20200103_0819_unraid-vmbackup.log'. 2020-01-05 07:00 information: cleaning out error logs over 10. find: '/mnt/cache/backup/logs/*unraid-vmbackup_error.log': No such file or directory 2020-01-05 07:00 information: did not find any error log files to remove. 2020-01-05 07:00 warning: errors found. creating error log file. sending incremental file list 20200105_0700_unraid-vmbackup.log sent 8,049 bytes received 35 bytes 5,389.33 bytes/sec total size is 7,930 speedup is 0.98 2020-01-05 07:00 Stop logging to log file. 2020-01-05 07:00 Stop logging to error log file. 2020-01-05 07:00:02 Removed: /tmp/vmbackup/scripts/user-script.sh 2020-01-05 07:00:02 Removed: /tmp/vmbackup/scripts/user-script.pid