On a related tangent... I wanted to get urBackup running on my new server to backup to my older server.

I ran a script ( https://www.urbackup.org/download.html#linux_all_binary )

Performed a backup.

Rebooted and now not sure if that script still exists.

How do you get a script to stay after a reboot? Can I ask you here? Or do I have to go make a new thread?

And I now realise that just was written into RAM and lost on reboot. So how do I solve that? Such a dumb sounding question, but this is the rookie level I am still at.

The urBckup thread is hundreds of posts long and assumes you know all the "obvious" basics and has be a bit lost. 3 hours of reading the thread and I may have an answer to try out...

Edited June 21, 20251 yr by Batter Pudding

I started here: https://forums.unraid.net/topic/82198-support-binhex-urbackup/?&do=findComment&comment=918119

And then saw the comment a few posts later:

as its installed to ram (keep in mind everything is in ram in unraid, other than cache, array disks and flash drive), so you will probably(i dont know yet), have to re-run the script i mentioned above, or perhaps just copy the urbackupclient that gets built and shove that on your flash drive and then copy that to /usr/local/bin/ and execute that as part of the go script - whateve the mechanism there is a bit of fiddling to be done but its def doable!.

Which is where I get lost... I'm gonna try a post in that long urBackup thread, but it is really about the server and my question is more of a rookie Unraid one.

Edited June 20, 20251 yr by Batter Pudding

You have to save it on the Flash/boot drive. Then either run by using the full path to the script or put a line in the go file to copy it to the appropriate location on the Linux file system where Linux can find it when you call it. (Sorry it has been so long since I did much work that far down in inner workings that I have forgotten all the proper terminology. I still have the old, old preclear-disk shell script in the root of my flash drive...)

13 minutes ago, Frank1940 said:

Sorry it has been so long since I did much work that far down in inner workings that I have forgotten all the proper terminology.

Don't worry, I'd rather have plain English that techno babble. I get the idea of what you are saying. Just gotta make sense of the USB drive now.

So if I run the script again, and then copy what it made onto the flash drive I may get somewhere?

I'm gonna also post in the urBackup thread and see if someone has a more Unraid friendly script.

Edit: That thread is like many of the 22 page long threads - half an answer is buried in the middle somewhere... so I may have found a solution to try after 3 hours of reading.

Edited June 21, 20251 yr by Batter Pudding