May 11, 20251 yr I have my appdata, domains, system and temp share directories on my SSD cache drive for speed. These are currently not backed up to my array in any fashion as I could never see how one could do that with unraid. What is the strategy I should be using here outside of physically adding backup cache drives? For example, I understand there is the mover setting but afaik that MOVES data from the cache to the array, thereby killing speed. Edited May 11, 20251 yr by strich
May 11, 20251 yr Community Expert 14 minutes ago, strich said: appdata, domains, system Speed is not the only reason to have these off the array. These files are always open and will prevent array disks from spinning down if they are on the array.
May 11, 20251 yr Author 1 hour ago, trurl said: Speed is not the only reason to have these off the array. These files are always open and will prevent array disks from spinning down if they are on the array. True. But how does one keep backups even if periodic?
May 11, 20251 yr Community Expert Solution Appdata backup plugin would be a good first start. You can write a backup script or use one of the many dockers that can backup stuff.
May 11, 20251 yr Author I'll take a look thanks. But to confirm unraid has no built in strategy for this? I'm a but surprised to be honest, or am I doing something non standard here?
May 11, 20251 yr Community Expert 58 minutes ago, strich said: But to confirm unraid has no built in strategy for this? No. Use that plugin, it works well. UNRAID is more or less just a Fileserver. All things like Dockers and VMs come from other sources and are not really in the scope of LimeTech. They just take them and put them in, but they do not develop them or build tools around them.
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