mjeshurun Posted December 22, 2022 Share Posted December 22, 2022 Hi friends, To better secure my unraid home server's data, I would like to configure unraid 6.11.5 to periodically backup a few of my docker containers appdata files to an internal m.2 SSD drive. Is it possible to add the SSD to unraid as an unassigned device and in a format that will be readable by MacOS and Windows (in case I need to restore/open the drive directly with MacOS or windows, and not with unraid)? Which format should I use: FAT32, exFAT or maybe another type? Can someone, please, explain the procedure to backup data files to an unassigned device? Thank you very much 🙏 Quote Link to comment
trurl Posted December 22, 2022 Share Posted December 22, 2022 CA Backup plugin will let you specify a path to an Unassigned Device. And Unassigned Devices plugin can create and mount filesystems that can be read on MacOS or Windows. Quote Link to comment
mjeshurun Posted December 22, 2022 Author Share Posted December 22, 2022 4 minutes ago, trurl said: CA Backup plugin will let you specify a path to an Unassigned Device. And Unassigned Devices plugin can create and mount filesystems that can be read on MacOS or Windows. Thank you very much @trurl 🙏 Do you know if it's also possible to set UnRAID's MacOS time-machine backups to an unassigned device? Quote Link to comment
trurl Posted December 22, 2022 Share Posted December 22, 2022 Don't have any experience with that. Is it a docker or plugin? Quote Link to comment
mjeshurun Posted December 22, 2022 Author Share Posted December 22, 2022 It's a built-in UnRAID OS feature. You need to enable Enhanced macOS interoperability under Settings->SMB Settings. I then continued to setup time-machine backups based on Spaceinvader-One's tutorial. Quote Link to comment
trurl Posted December 22, 2022 Share Posted December 22, 2022 How do you tell it where to backup? Quote Link to comment
mjeshurun Posted December 24, 2022 Author Share Posted December 24, 2022 On 12/23/2022 at 12:15 AM, trurl said: How do you tell it where to backup? Sorry for the delayed reply. I forgot how I set time-machine up. I will need to rewatch the spaceinvader-one tutorial video. On 12/22/2022 at 11:29 PM, trurl said: CA Backup plugin will let you specify a path to an Unassigned Device. And Unassigned Devices plugin can create and mount filesystems that can be read on MacOS or Windows. Do you know how I can find the full path location of the unassigned drive? Quote Link to comment
trurl Posted December 24, 2022 Share Posted December 24, 2022 Mounted Unassigned Devices are in /mnt/disks 1 Quote Link to comment
mjeshurun Posted December 25, 2022 Author Share Posted December 25, 2022 21 hours ago, trurl said: Mounted Unassigned Devices are in /mnt/disks Thank you. I managed to set up the Nextcloud backup path to the unassigned drive However, I'm having difficulties setting up the macos time-machine backup. The first step to create a time-machine backup is to create a new UnRAID share and choose the included/excluded disks the share data will be saved on. The problem I'm facing is that the Included Disks option does not show unassigned devices. It only lists array drives. Is it possible to configure UnRAID to show unassigned devices as available disks under Included Disks? Quote Link to comment
itimpi Posted December 25, 2022 Share Posted December 25, 2022 13 minutes ago, mjeshurun said: Is it possible to configure UnRAID to show unassigned devices as available disks under Included Disks? No. That feature is only available for User Shares and UD devices cannot participate in User Shares (one of the differences to using a pool). 1 Quote Link to comment
mjeshurun Posted December 26, 2022 Author Share Posted December 26, 2022 On 12/25/2022 at 4:15 PM, itimpi said: No. That feature is only available for User Shares and UD devices cannot participate in User Shares (one of the differences to using a pool). Thanks. I ended up using the TimeMachine docker app. Unlike the unraid built-in timemachine solution, the docker app allows to choose a path on an unassigned device. So I'm good Quote Link to comment
mjeshurun Posted January 2, 2023 Author Share Posted January 2, 2023 Happy New Year 🎉 Can someone please explain how I can use User Scripts to automatically backup several different data folders on my UnRAID server to an unattended device? I would like the script to run automatically every X days and keep the last Y backups (earlier backups than Y can be deleted or overwritten). Is this possible? Thanks again for your help 🙏 Quote Link to comment
trurl Posted January 2, 2023 Share Posted January 2, 2023 See the example scripts in the Unassigned Devices thread. 1 Quote Link to comment
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