February 11, 20251 yr @SimonF Feature request: Would it be possible on the send dialogue, after clicking SEND to the right of an existing snapshot, to have an override that allows one to override to a full snap send instead of whatever is defaulted (I believe at original creation time). As the default selection is for snaps to be sent as incremental this would make seeding the initial snap much more intuitive IMO. Thanks!
February 14, 20251 yr Sorry if this has been asked before. I'm pretty new to all this and tried to set this up without really knowing what i was doing/getting into. After i tried to uninstall the plugin though, the backups still remain and even if i reinstall the plugin i can't delete the snapshots i made... Any ideas on how to do so? Even if i ssh into it and try to force delete i just get an error. Thanks!
February 15, 20251 yr Author 12 hours ago, echoxmakerx said: Sorry if this has been asked before. I'm pretty new to all this and tried to set this up without really knowing what i was doing/getting into. After i tried to uninstall the plugin though, the backups still remain and even if i reinstall the plugin i can't delete the snapshots i made... Any ideas on how to do so? Even if i ssh into it and try to force delete i just get an error. Thanks! run btrfs subvolume show pathname and from there you should be able to run btrfs subvolume delete /mnt/data/@some_dir-snapshot-test
February 15, 20251 yr 11 hours ago, SimonF said: run btrfs subvolume show pathname and from there you should be able to run btrfs subvolume delete /mnt/data/@some_dir-snapshot-test Took me awhile to figure out that i needed to do btrfs subvolume show /mnt/disk# , but after that i was able to delete it like you said. Much thanks!
February 26, 20251 yr If you want the verification to be executed every hour from 6 am to 8 pm, how should you write it? If you modify "/boot/config/plugins/snapshots/subvolsch.cfg" directly How do I modify and load new settings? Thanks
February 26, 20251 yr Author 12 hours ago, volechen said: If you want the verification to be executed every hour from 6 am to 8 pm, how should you write it? If you modify "/boot/config/plugins/snapshots/subvolsch.cfg" directly How do I modify and load new settings? Thanks It is not possible to have an exclusion range. a cron file it built and update_cron is called to enable. This is the code that builds the file in boot/config/plugins/snapshots/ switch ($val["snapSchedule"]) { case "0": $val["cron"] = "0 $hour2 * * $rund" ; break; case "1": $val["cron"] = "$min $hour * * $rund" ; break; case "2": $val["cron"] = "$min $hour * * $day" ; break; case "3": $val["cron"] = "$min $hour $dotm * *" ; break; } #var_dump($val) ; $val['vmselection'] = implode("," , $val['vmselection']) ; $config[$sn] = $val ; #$config_json[$sn] = $val ; save_ini_file($config_file, $config); #save_json_file($config_file_json, $config_json) ; if ($config[$sn]["snapscheduleenabled"] == "yes") { $cron = "# Generated snapshot schedule for:$sn\n".$val["cron"]." /usr/local/emhttp/plugins/snapshots/include/snapping.php \"$sn\" > /dev/null 2>&1 \n\n"; } else { $cron="" ; } parse_cron_cfg("snapshots", urlencode($sn), $cron); return (isset($config[$sn][$var])) ? $config[$sn] : FALSE; }
February 27, 20251 yr 10 hours ago, SimonF said: It is not possible to have an exclusion range. a cron file it built and update_cron is called to enable. This is the code that builds the file in boot/config/plugins/snapshots/ switch ($val["snapSchedule"]) { case "0": $val["cron"] = "0 $hour2 * * $rund" ; break; case "1": $val["cron"] = "$min $hour * * $rund" ; break; case "2": $val["cron"] = "$min $hour * * $day" ; break; case "3": $val["cron"] = "$min $hour $dotm * *" ; break; } #var_dump($val) ; $val['vmselection'] = implode("," , $val['vmselection']) ; $config[$sn] = $val ; #$config_json[$sn] = $val ; save_ini_file($config_file, $config); #save_json_file($config_file_json, $config_json) ; if ($config[$sn]["snapscheduleenabled"] == "yes") { $cron = "# Generated snapshot schedule for:$sn\n".$val["cron"]." /usr/local/emhttp/plugins/snapshots/include/snapping.php \"$sn\" > /dev/null 2>&1 \n\n"; } else { $cron="" ; } parse_cron_cfg("snapshots", urlencode($sn), $cron); return (isset($config[$sn][$var])) ? $config[$sn] : FALSE; } Hello. 1. Have you created "switch.cron" under "boot/config/plugins/snapshots/"? Have you modified the file content to " case "0": $val["cron"] = "0 $hour2 * * $rund" ; break; case "1": $val["cron"] = "$min 6-20 * * $rund" ; // Limited to 6:00-20:00 break; case "2": $val["cron"] = "$min 6-20 * * $day" ; // Limited to 6:00-20:00 break; case "3": $val["cron"] = "$min 6-20 $dotm * *" ; // Limited to 6:00-20:00 break; " . 2. How to call "update_cron" to enable?
February 27, 20251 yr Author 36 minutes ago, volechen said: Hello. 1. Have you created "switch.cron" under "boot/config/plugins/snapshots/"? Have you modified the file content to " case "0": $val["cron"] = "0 $hour2 * * $rund" ; break; case "1": $val["cron"] = "$min 6-20 * * $rund" ; // Limited to 6:00-20:00 break; case "2": $val["cron"] = "$min 6-20 * * $day" ; // Limited to 6:00-20:00 break; case "3": $val["cron"] = "$min 6-20 $dotm * *" ; // Limited to 6:00-20:00 break; " . 2. How to call "update_cron" to enable? Each schedule has a cron file. root@computenode:/boot/config/plugins/snapshots# cat %2Fmnt%2Fcache%2Fvol%2FnestvolSlot0.cron # Generated snapshot schedule for:/mnt/cache/vol/nestvol 0 */1 * * 0,1,2,3,4,5,6, /usr/local/emhttp/plugins/snapshots/include/snapping.php "/mnt/cache/vol/nestvol" "0" > /dev/null 2>&1 root@computenode:/boot/config/plugins/snapshots# you run update_cron as a cmd root@computenode:/boot/config/plugins/snapshots# ls /usr/local/sbin/update_cron /usr/local/sbin/update_cron* root@computenode:/boot/config/plugins/snapshots#
February 27, 20251 yr 1 hour ago, SimonF said: Each schedule has a cron file. root@computenode:/boot/config/plugins/snapshots# cat %2Fmnt%2Fcache%2Fvol%2FnestvolSlot0.cron # Generated snapshot schedule for:/mnt/cache/vol/nestvol 0 */1 * * 0,1,2,3,4,5,6, /usr/local/emhttp/plugins/snapshots/include/snapping.php "/mnt/cache/vol/nestvol" "0" > /dev/null 2>&1 root@computenode:/boot/config/plugins/snapshots# you run update_cron as a cmd root@computenode:/boot/config/plugins/snapshots# ls /usr/local/sbin/update_cron /usr/local/sbin/update_cron* root@computenode:/boot/config/plugins/snapshots# So I directly modified the content of "%2Fmnt%2Fcache%2FappdataSlot0.cron" as follows, # Generated snapshot schedule for:/mnt/cache/appdata 0 6-20 * * 1,2,3,4,5, /usr/local/emhttp/plugins/snapshots/include/snapping.php "/mnt/cache/appdata" "0" > /dev/null 2>&1 " Execute in root@computenode:/boot/config/plugins/snapshots# /usr/local/sbin/update_cron* Is this OK? Edited February 27, 20251 yr by volechen
February 28, 20251 yr Author On 2/27/2025 at 8:30 AM, volechen said: So I directly modified the content of "%2Fmnt%2Fcache%2FappdataSlot0.cron" as follows, # Generated snapshot schedule for:/mnt/cache/appdata 0 6-20 * * 1,2,3,4,5, /usr/local/emhttp/plugins/snapshots/include/snapping.php "/mnt/cache/appdata" "0" > /dev/null 2>&1 " Execute in root@computenode:/boot/config/plugins/snapshots# /usr/local/sbin/update_cron* Is this OK? Yes that should work, You may want to give it a file name that is not related as when you change something in the gui the cron file will be overwritten. Not sure if you can have schedule set to disabled in the gui and this process will work would need to check. I can look to add a custom cron value to the gui. just run -> /usr/local/sbin/update_cron
November 18, 2025Nov 18 @SimonF Could you take a look at the UI of your plugin? I am currently using unRaid 7.2 and noticed that the plugin cannot be used, at least on mobile. If you significantly reduce the browser window on the desktop, you get the same behavior.
November 18, 2025Nov 18 @SimonF First of all, thank you very much for your plugin. This is very helpful and has already saved me a lot of work.Nevertheless, I have a small suggestion for improvement. Most users are not really familiar with snapshots, and they don't know the difference between 'subvolumes' and 'directories'. They also have enormous problems creating the first snapshot with this plugin. For this reason, it would be useful to integrate a small wizard, that should ask which share should receive a snapshot, and where should the snapshot be stored. After this, the first snapshot should be created in the plugin automatically. Once this basic information is available, then the user can actually get along very well with the interface and its plugin.It would be great, if you could find the time to program this wizard. Edited November 19, 2025Nov 19 by petbrau
February 9Feb 9 Am I the only one for whom the interface for Snapshots does not work at all in Unraid 7.2.3 ?I can't see the usual options, everything is empty. Edited February 9Feb 9 by Normand_Nadon
February 18Feb 18 On 2/9/2026 at 10:15 PM, Normand_Nadon said:Am I the only one for whom the interface for Snapshots does not work at all in Unraid 7.2.3 ?I can't see the usual options, everything is empty.@Normand_Nadon What type of file system do you have?Do you have a Btrfs partition at least?Does this plugin work with other UnRaid releases on your system?Please provide us with some more information. Edited February 19Feb 19 by petbrau
February 22Feb 22 On 2/18/2026 at 4:21 PM, petbrau said:@Normand_Nadon What type of file system do you have?Do you have a Btrfs partition at least?Does this plugin work with other UnRaid releases on your system?Please provide us with some more information.Sorry for the delayed response, I somehow did not get the notification.This plugin has worked for me on my array for several years now... partitions are BTRFS of course, and I had my snapshot creation/expiration schedules all created on that interface.I noticed one of my drive was not getting snapshots correctly (entirely my fault, misconfiguration) but I could not manage Snapshots from that plugin's UI anymore.I disabled the plugin for now and reverted to using a script to run the snapshots... But it is not as convenient!Have a nice day!
April 16Apr 16 I've also noticed, that the checkboxes to show/hide docker or root volumes is gone in recent Unraid versions (because of breaking UI changes?):Maybe the UI gets confused because of this. Anyways, I cannot maintain schedules or settings for root subvolumes anymore, it somehow tries to manage "/" instead of "/mnt/cache/" and cannot find or manipulate any configuration because of that.E.g. if I hit settings here it wants to edit SubVolume "/" but it should be "/mnt/cache".Besides that the scripting part that triggers snapshot creation for already existing schedules is working fine, but configuration in the UI is impossible as of now.
May 7May 7 Hi @SimonF ,I've created a Pull Request for the issues mentioned above on GitHub. Would be nice if you find some time to have a look at it.
May 8May 8 Author 8 hours ago, chli01 said:Hi @SimonF ,I've created a Pull Request for the issues mentioned above on GitHub. Would be nice if you find some time to have a look at it.Thanks for the PR I will try and review over the weekend.
May 10May 10 Author On 5/7/2026 at 11:42 PM, chli01 said:Hi @SimonF ,I've created a Pull Request for the issues mentioned above on GitHub. Would be nice if you find some time to have a look at it.Which version of 7.2 did you test on?
May 11May 11 10 hours ago, SimonF said:Which version of 7.2 did you test on?I was testing on 7.2.5. Could you reproduce?
May 11May 11 Author 21 minutes ago, chli01 said:I was testing on 7.2.5. Could you reproduce?I was testing 6.12, 7.1 and 7.2 for backwards compatibilty but 7.2 did not show for me. I will try again today.It is working on 7.3 must be the package I created was not ok. I wil test for backwards compatibilty then look to release.
May 11May 11 1 hour ago, SimonF said:I was testing 6.12, 7.1 and 7.2 for backwards compatibilty but 7.2 did not show for me. I will try again today.It is working on 7.3 must be the package I created was not ok. I wil test for backwards compatibilty then look to release.Hopefully you get it working. I was just testing by replacing the installed files on the fly...I didn't remove the existing bindings, so older Unraid version should still be fine.Otherwise, sounds great!
May 12May 12 Author On 5/11/2026 at 10:18 AM, chli01 said:Hopefully you get it working. I was just testing by replacing the installed files on the fly...I didn't remove the existing bindings, so older Unraid version should still be fine.Otherwise, sounds great!I have release the update today, thanks for the PR.
May 12May 12 4 hours ago, SimonF said:I have release the update today, thanks for the PR.Works like a charm, thanks for releasing the fix!
May 23May 23 unraid to sysnologyattribute 12 requested but not presentGitHubFail to backup to a synology btrfs drive · Issue #383 · d...Hi there! I'm trying to backup from my local workstation to a synology formated drive. Here is my btrbk conf : transaction_log /var/log/btrbk.log lockfile /var/lock/btrbk.lock snapshot_dir snapshot...--max-errors=0
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