October 17, 2025Oct 17 Hi 👋, I'm checking back in to share a gotcha that I recently met. I'm still using the ramdisk method with user scripts running at the start/stop of the array, as well as every 15 minutes.The only difference is that I use the /dev/shm/ directory instead of mounting a custom ramfs.The problem had to do with the Appdata Backup plugin.As you can see in the image, volumes mounted using the ramdisk don't count as internal and thus don't get backed up by default. (note the icon to the left of the path)For this particular container, I have to select "Save external volumes? Yes" and define custom exclusions, because I only need to backup the appdata volume of the container and not the media files.Since I wasn't aware of this feature before, I have been spending a long time not actually having backups of a few of my containers.Today it finally came to a head and a database file in one of those containers was corrupted due to bad RAM, and I didn't have a backup to restore it. 🫠I hope my bad luck will help other people.
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