VM-Babysitter

Automatic Backup & Monitoring utility for QEMU/KVM Virtual Machines

(powered by Virtnbdbackup)

 

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Official Support Thread for Unraid Users

 

If you need support making this container to work on Unraid, or questions/feedback related with Unraid, this is the right place to post.

 

By the other hand, if you've found a bug, or want to ask/request something that is not related with Unraid (or not quite sure); we strongly encourage you to open an issue on GitHub.

We also encourage you to read the entire Documentation on GitHub in order to know everything about its backstory, features and caveats.

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How about a youtube video on setting this up?

On 9/6/2025 at 2:09 AM, Jessie said:

How about a youtube video on setting this up?

Hi Jessie, and thank you for your feedback!

Certainly, main documentation lacks of visual examples about how to configure VM-Babysitter on Unraid. After we discussed this internally (we are a small software company), we're agree that an explanatory video would be a great idea. We've just added this on the top of the milestones with this piece of useful software.

Either short video(s), or some tutorial with images that covers both configuration and some other topics like maintenance, restoration, etc. on Unraid (preferably the 1st option).

We will see how to provide this in a reasonable amount of time (we're just developers, though, not experienced media content creators 😅)

In the meantime, as the person in charge of this project from the very beginning, my first advise can be resumed into the following:

• All thumb rules to make this run correctly are explained at source code into the sections Important Notes and Install & Basic setup on Unraid, respectively

• Setting container's timezone (matching your Unraid's one), a path to a share where local backups will be saved (e.g. a cache drive that periodically moves to an array) and a backup schedule that fits your needs (but outside from mover's schedule)

All other template's defaults are 'good to go' for basic, standalone usage. We have tested it on the field for long time, for backup of production VM running on Unraid servers.

If you need help setting it, have questions and/or doubts, or you want to understand advanced features, I'll be happy to assist.

Kind Regards,

Adrián.

Thanks for the feedback. I will see if I can get my head around the documentation. Also looking forward to the video in the future.

Regards Greg

Is VM-babysitter still 'alive' and maintained? Latest update on Github was Dec 2024.

It still works OK here to backup my Home Assistant OS VM on Unraid, and I liked this application.

But it seems it has been abandoned?

On 3/14/2026 at 12:31 PM, BasUnraid said:

Is VM-babysitter still 'alive' and maintained? Latest update on Github was Dec 2024.

It still works OK here to backup my Home Assistant OS VM on Unraid, and I liked this application.

But it seems it has been abandoned?

Hello BasUnraid,

VM-Babysitter is still alive and we've not forgotten ;)

The main reason why the code is over a year without changes is that still provides what we look for: High stability. The ability to forget about backups until some VM -or an entire server- fails.
Generated backups are perfectly restorable with the latest versions of Virtnbdbackup.

The second reason has been, honestly, not enough time to dedicate: During the last year (and this year, so far) we've been attending different developments and other projects that claim our attention with priority. Small changes in code need to be tested thoughtfully before to release a stable. This is very time consuming...

The most immediate goal in mind now it's to make the stable image self-built, so we all count with latest versions of the internal tools.
After that, a couple of code updates requested on GitHub, and a more user friendly tutorial here (despite the best effort to make it work fine on its defaults has been made).
Some ideas are around, too. These aren't an urgency for us, so are pretty at the bottom of priorities.

Regards,
Adrián.

Hi, sorry for the late reply. But glad to hear it has not been abandoned! I'll then keep using it.

Thanks!