January 15, 20251 yr What is the generally recommended method to backup the following?: 1. Virtual Machines (libvirtd) 2. Dockers (docker.img) 3. Any other non-app community plugins (I believe their information is written directly to the Flash drive) 4. Just the Flash drive with the UNRAID license Or do you cover all the above by simply copying the contents of Domains, Appdata and System share? I have come across various tools that cover one or another, but I was hoping there is one tool or application that can create backups for all four above on the actual system array or a different machine in case there is a configuration issue and some of the data needs to be replaced. I am not worried about the actual array since it just stores media files, I am more concerned with protecting the configuration of the Dockers, VMs and other cache only data. Thanks.
January 15, 20251 yr Community Expert 2 plugins to accomplish this efectively App data plugin (this an awesome solution to back up dockers, and the flash drvie) and some vm xml metadata for recovery latter. VM Backup plugin (this is a beta plugin, but can back up vms and vdisk.) yes, most target the appdata folder in the default docker location. And the domain fodder the default vm location. However, there are some side data at unriad /etc/ folders for vm (especial if you used a unraid 7 vm snapshot) that get loaded from the system docker.img and libvirt.img. outside of grabbing that for a full backup... the Appdata plugin has a recovery function built in aswell and is a aio nice utility plugin for backups and automation... Quote 1. Virtual Machines (libvirtd) 2. Dockers (docker.img) 3. Any other non-app community plugins (I believe their information is written directly to the Flash drive) 4. Just the Flash drive with the UNRAID license 1: with vm setting, set to off you can cpy this image but it may not be the backup nor data you really need the use of the vm backup plugin can help here 2. with docker setting, set to off you can copy this image but again, it may not be the backup nor data you really need. the docker image hols the docker pull docker data... 3. all plugins are installed to the flash drive yes. you would need to install a plugin user script to do your own cron job and side scripting... 4. webui > main > flash > flash backup... I don't remember the terminal command for flash backup...., the appdata backup plugin woudl be my go to and has options for this. App data plugin, all the way.... you tell it where to store the backup data and additional folder if your docker data is not located in the default unraid appdata folder.
January 15, 20251 yr Community Expert ich777 also made a plugin for unraid replication to maintain settings. using this for a high availablity if you have 2 identical hardware. then its a matter of rsync and copy data between each other...
February 20, 20251 yr Good day, is there a script to automate vm backups using the new Unraid 7 built in vm backup feature? Thank you. Answering my own question: Just create a back up from the gui, open the logs, copy the command...... 'virsh snapshot-create-as 'windev' --name 'S20250220121649' --atomic --disk-only --diskspec 'hdc',snapshot=external,file='/mnt/virtdisk/domains/windev/vdisk1-clone.S20250220121649qcow2' Edited February 20, 20251 yr by juan11perez
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