Appdata.Backup BETA

Support Thread

Here we can discuss about beta testing results.

 

Please note, this is the BETA/TEST version of the plugin and should not be tested on a productive server!

If you search the stable version: https://forums.unraid.net/topic/137710-plugin-appdatabackup/

 

Install beta plg via:

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Commifreak/unraid-appdata.backup/master/appdata.backup.beta.plg

(or via CA Apps)

Edited December 11, 20231 yr by KluthR

Please always attach the DEBUG(!) log if you have issues. You can find it inside the Status / Log tab!

Edited March 27, 20232 yr by KluthR

I just installed the beta version - when clicking the "Save" button under "Some Extra Settings" -> "Done?", the "Scheduled Backup Frequency" reverts to "Disabled" (I selected Daily) and also the "Skip?" defaults to "Yes" for each Docker container.

 

Downloading the logs results in a 19 byte file that says no log found. Able to help any way I can to troubleshoot.

 

Finally decommissioning the v2.5 version to jump to a beta version that doesn't appear to migrate any data automatically is a bit rough - wish there was an export/import or something.

Thanks for testing

15 minutes ago, xaositek said:

the "Scheduled Backup Frequency" reverts to "Disabled" (I selected Daily) and also the "Skip?" defaults to "Yes" for each Docker container

Cannot reproduce. Just installed it fresh again, just giving it a source and the daily option (and set one container to Verify: no) -> Saved, Page reloaded: My cronjob settings are as set. The per docker setting "Verify?" is still no, as set. Could you share your /boot/config/plugins/appdata.backup.beta/config.json file?

 

15 minutes ago, xaositek said:

doesn't appear to migrate any data automatically is a bit rough

There are just a few things I can migrate so I currently chose to migrate nothing. The base settings are a good start, you just have to set a destination. Since fine tuning on the containers is needed, I did not added some migration (yet).

Edited March 28, 20232 yr by KluthR

17 minutes ago, KluthR said:

Cannot reproduce

False. I found an issue regarding the defaults for containers. Please update and either remove the mentioned config.json and start again or set their values back to "Uwe default". The settings should no longer switch back to the real default values. Sorry!

 

But I still cant reproduce the schedule-resets-itself issue

Nuked config.json, updated to Beta 2 and reconfigured.

 

Scheduling still looks bugged in the Web Interface but is saved properly to config.json

config.json

You can also see in the config.json I have "Skip" to "No" but yet the Web Interface says Yes

Thanks for your input

 

Thats smells like an issue during apply settings back to their fields. Thats done via JavaScript.

 

I bet, if you press F12 (browsers dev console) you can see some red errors. Which broser are you using? Just tested with FF and Edge

Edited March 28, 20232 yr by KluthR

Operating System: macOS Ventura 13.3

Browser: Version 16.4 (18615.1.26.11.22)

 

Just tested in Chrome Version 111.0.5563.146 (Official Build) (64-bit) on Windows 11 and it appears that OS/browser did work

So, you use safari then? Hmm, I cant test that here, maybe my iPhone can shed a light. Let me try.

 

But I dont see any JS errors which could have prevented the process.

Just now, KluthR said:

So, you use safari then? Hmm, I cant test that here, maybe my iPhone can shed a light. Let me try.

 

But I dont see any JS errors which could have prevented the process.

 

Sorry yes it is Safari Version 16.4 (18615.1.26.11.22) on macOS Ventura 13.3 - omitted an important word, apologies. 

Yep, I can reproduce this on my iPhone. I'll search a solution.

Do Appdata Backup also backup all Docker volume mappings?

My appdata\binhex-delugevpn is 73 MB but I had to stop the backup process when the backed up archive grew over 200 GB. This also happened to several other Dockers.

 

Please find the debug attached.

ab.debug.log

Currently it does, yes. But I immediately see what that can cause.

 

I‘ll change that behavior and let the user decide how to handle mappings outside the appdata path.

 

Dont ask me why I did not see/paid attention to it.

I ran this on 6.12RC2 and after ~hour and ~400GB of space and still running I aborted the backup. Will not abort after 30 minutes, "Waiting on Current Task to Finish." Had to reboot. Will follow-up w/ a diagnostic file.

1 hour ago, Govnah said:

I ran this on 6.12RC2 and after ~hour and ~400GB of space and still running I aborted the backup. Will not abort after 30 minutes, "Waiting on Current Task to Finish." Had to reboot. Will follow-up w/ a diagnostic file.

Same here, Cant grab logs with it in progress.

I was able to kill the process, here's the logs.

 

Edit 1, Also, forgot the name but it ended in a .php for the process.

 

Edit 2, looks like it didn't kill the process and it's just eating up space now, Gonna reboot and delete the backup.

ab.debug.log

 

Edit 3, So had to force shutdown with the power button, that was fun (she lied) lol, hope my info helps get things working, love the plugin!

Edited March 28, 20232 yr by AnnabellaRenee87
Super sized backup of a super small Docker.

I manually excluded the non appdata volumes, and set it to verify backup = false but it's still failing with errors and this causes all the files to be deleted from the backup directory. Before the backup is complete, if I look in the backup directory I can see that all the files are there. logs attached. 

 

Edit: was able to kill the process using  fuser -km /mnt/user

ab.log ab.debug.log

Edited March 29, 20232 yr by craven_moorehead
found the way to kill the process

When I set the schedule to weekly on a Monday it asked what day of the week I think it should not be asking that?

For all who are facing issues with too large backups (hey, better than nothing 😞 Stay tuned, Im working on that.

 

8 hours ago, MyKroFt said:

When I set the schedule to weekly on a Monday it asked what day of the week I think it should not be asking that?

You are right, but the setting would have no effect. I just did not disabled the input field yet. The logic is created the right way in the background.

Edited March 29, 20232 yr by KluthR

Released an update, please give it another try.

 

@xaositekSafari should work well now as well

It works as expected and no longer backups volume mappings other than \appdata\.

The old version of the backup plugin required the CA Auto Update Applications plugin to be installed (if I remember correctly). Do this new version also require that plugin?

6 minutes ago, mjorud said:

The old version of the backup plugin required the CA Auto Update Applications plugin to be installed (if I remember correctly). Do this new version also require that plugin?

No. Any Auto-Update is done via the native unraid way, no other plugins are needed.

2 hours ago, KluthR said:

Released an update, please give it another try.

 

@xaositekSafari should work well now as well

Confirmed working now!

 

Found an interesting issue though - I clicked Abort but it appears the gzip stuck in the middle of running so I killed the gzip command at the CLI level. It's now stuck thinking the backup is in running mode; but it isn't as you can see on the screen. 

 

Edit: it did finally recognize the backup had finished; I just jumped the gun.

Edited March 29, 20232 yr by xaositek