11 hours ago, castores said:

Thank you for creating and maintaining this wonderful plugin. I still can't believe this has so much great functionality.

This is likely just me being a newbie, but I'm testing a disaster recovery scenario and I'm struggling with it.

I reinstalled Unraid from scratch and creative different arrays and user shares, so restoration paths will be different from the original backups.

• As a first step, I installed the Vault Backup Manager plugin.

• As a second step, I need to restore the Vault Backup Manager database. But how can this be done exactly? I tried manually replacing the vault.db file on the boot media and that doesn't seem to work.

Hello, I'm making improvements to the DR process. Next version will allow you to go through the Recovery tab to recover your backup storage and restores your settings step by step.

2 hours ago, PanicMechanic007 said:

Hello, I'm making improvements to the DR process. Next version will allow you to go through the Recovery tab to recover your backup storage and restores your settings step by step.

This sounds great, thank you so much.

I managed to restore the database manually in the end (I needed to restore it on another path), but I'm now getting a couple of errors that don't allow me to restore the data. Since you are working on it, I'll just wait for the new version that will certainly work.

3 hours ago, castores said:

This sounds great, thank you so much.

I managed to restore the database manually in the end (I needed to restore it on another path), but I'm now getting a couple of errors that don't allow me to restore the data. Since you are working on it, I'll just wait for the new version that will certainly work.

What’s the errors? Please share

So first of all: This is the best Plugin/Suite/Dashboard of a BackUp Solution I‘ve seen this far, even tho I have not used many and this is my first deep dive into a complete setup for home use, it works like a champ. So, kudos to you for making it happen! :)

Since this is my first time using a backup solution to backup data to a secondary storage solution, in my case a Data Centre, I‘ve got a couple questions and maybe some improvements that could make it easier for everybody or first time user in particular.

1. When I setup my first Job yesterday, I noticed that the the Step-by-Step Setup for a Job is quite handy, in fact it made it really easy to understand what‘s necessary and what not. Since I wanted to explore it a little bit more I switched to Full Form only to find the Advanced Options missing? I was surprised at first but then I read the Note at the bottom, which explains it that when Full Form is used it uses sensible defaults. It‘s not bad but u might want to make that Note a little bit bigger or more noticeable.

2. Speaking of noticeable and first time user: Is there a way of adding the documentation Link to the System Tab on the left? When I used it yesterday, it took me like 15 minutes yesterday to find them, I even thought there wasn‘t any. Again, I don‘t think it is a bad placement it could just be a bit more visible.

3. Speaking of documentation: It ist really good, specially for something that is this detailed so Kudos again.

4. Now to something I might not have understood completely but maybe that‘s something to clarify: In the documentation it is written that „A Weekly Full and Daily Incremental Backups are a good mix/use for Home Server Use“. So far so good, I completely agree with that. But now there‘s the catch: When U setup a Job for the first time, U need to select the BackUp Type, i.e Full, incremental, Differential. I‘m a big fan of incremental so I went with that but then It hit me: Is incremental, when the Job is first started, doing a Full Backup of selected Source and then only doing the incremental changes? To me, at least, it is not clearly visible if it is doing that or just backing up „something“?. It would really be helpful to add that to the documentation or even in the Job creation itself to help users, specially first time users, to set them up.

   What I did to be sure is to run a Full Backup at first and then switch it to incremental after it had finished. Idk if that is necessary at all but it worked.

5. Aborting or Canceling Jobs: I know that there‘s a way to cancel a running Job, since it is documented in the documentation but for me, it does not cancel the already running job. In Fact: It does nothing. What cancels a Job is deleting it, then it cancels it. I just can‘t imagine that this is the supposed way of canceling one, or is it? I‘d really like to have a „Abort or Cancel“ Option for a job, even when it is not recommended. At least it would help when u run a job for the first time and set something up wrong.

6. More like an Ask: is there away to display the Folder/File Structure on the Target site when Vault is connected to it, like an FTP client does? It does not need to have a lot of functions but a little overview of how the folder structure is would be neat, even tho it is not necessary. Just thought it would be nice.

So quite the list but that‘s what the forum is for I guess ;) Jokes aside, this Plugin is a godsend specially for the use case I have. Keep improving it, keep doing it and I guess in a couple of years you‘ll be the standard for all of this.

Cheers

Alex

On 7/11/2026 at 1:12 PM, PanicMechanic007 said:

What’s the errors? Please share

Apologies for the delay in my response.

I cannot reproduce the error at this point, but it was caused by the incorrect reinstatement of the vault.db file. Since the update that introduced the "Recover Vault" wizard, this all worked perfectly. Thank you for making it so clear and easy going forward.

I must flag another couple potential bugs I've found while restoring a few folders:

1. Vault is triggering multiple "restore complete" notifications for the same folder, some of which the restoration job is actually completed. I can provide diagnostics in private if necessary. Attaching a screenshot here.

2. Some (not all) of my restoration points are not allowing me to browse and restore specific files.

Edited July 17Jul 17 by castores
Placing screenshots next to related comments

Hi Panic,

Just used your Restore Config System / Option and it worked fantastic!
So far, no majors and continuing to enjoy the Platform,.

Thanks!

On 7/17/2026 at 9:19 PM, deltaexray said:

So first of all: This is the best Plugin/Suite/Dashboard of a BackUp Solution I‘ve seen this far, even tho I have not used many and this is my first deep dive into a complete setup for home use, it works like a champ. So, kudos to you for making it happen! :)

Since this is my first time using a backup solution to backup data to a secondary storage solution, in my case a Data Centre, I‘ve got a couple questions and maybe some improvements that could make it easier for everybody or first time user in particular.

1. When I setup my first Job yesterday, I noticed that the the Step-by-Step Setup for a Job is quite handy, in fact it made it really easy to understand what‘s necessary and what not. Since I wanted to explore it a little bit more I switched to Full Form only to find the Advanced Options missing? I was surprised at first but then I read the Note at the bottom, which explains it that when Full Form is used it uses sensible defaults. It‘s not bad but u might want to make that Note a little bit bigger or more noticeable.

2. Speaking of noticeable and first time user: Is there a way of adding the documentation Link to the System Tab on the left? When I used it yesterday, it took me like 15 minutes yesterday to find them, I even thought there wasn‘t any. Again, I don‘t think it is a bad placement it could just be a bit more visible.

3. Speaking of documentation: It ist really good, specially for something that is this detailed so Kudos again.

4. Now to something I might not have understood completely but maybe that‘s something to clarify: In the documentation it is written that „A Weekly Full and Daily Incremental Backups are a good mix/use for Home Server Use“. So far so good, I completely agree with that. But now there‘s the catch: When U setup a Job for the first time, U need to select the BackUp Type, i.e Full, incremental, Differential. I‘m a big fan of incremental so I went with that but then It hit me: Is incremental, when the Job is first started, doing a Full Backup of selected Source and then only doing the incremental changes? To me, at least, it is not clearly visible if it is doing that or just backing up „something“?. It would really be helpful to add that to the documentation or even in the Job creation itself to help users, specially first time users, to set them up.

   What I did to be sure is to run a Full Backup at first and then switch it to incremental after it had finished. Idk if that is necessary at all but it worked.

5. Aborting or Canceling Jobs: I know that there‘s a way to cancel a running Job, since it is documented in the documentation but for me, it does not cancel the already running job. In Fact: It does nothing. What cancels a Job is deleting it, then it cancels it. I just can‘t imagine that this is the supposed way of canceling one, or is it? I‘d really like to have a „Abort or Cancel“ Option for a job, even when it is not recommended. At least it would help when u run a job for the first time and set something up wrong.

6. More like an Ask: is there away to display the Folder/File Structure on the Target site when Vault is connected to it, like an FTP client does? It does not need to have a lot of functions but a little overview of how the folder structure is would be neat, even tho it is not necessary. Just thought it would be nice.

So quite the list but that‘s what the forum is for I guess ;) Jokes aside, this Plugin is a godsend specially for the use case I have. Keep improving it, keep doing it and I guess in a couple of years you‘ll be the standard for all of this.

Cheers

Alex

Thanks for the feedback. Much appreciated. I will make improvements.

12 minutes ago, PanicMechanic007 said:

Thanks for the feedback. Much appreciated. I will make improvements.

Thank you, I thought writing it all down would be better solution instead of 10 different posts.

Beside that Something I came around yesterday: When U select the VM Backup, It took mine 100GB VM around 7 hours to do the initial backup only to end up in an error saying: Failed. Idk if I did something wrong but Is there something I can provide you with so you can take a look at? Don‘t think it is supposed to do that

Also: Is there a way to implement a solution that If the Upload is busy i.e for example remote streaming for Plex, to throttle down the upload for Vault? Like a „little“ load balancer? I know its super niche but it is one of the things that came to mind when selecting the date and time for the backup

Edited July 18Jul 18 by deltaexray

One other little thing I noticed just now: In the Documentation it says that a Job can be canceled when it is running, i.e in the Jobs Tab. I think there's a Bug when you have a Job on a schedule but trigger it manually, click Run Now, because on my Jobs Page, I can't cancel a Job that is running now but is actually on a schedule. Could that be a case?

9 hours ago, deltaexray said:

Thank you, I thought writing it all down would be better solution instead of 10 different posts.

Beside that Something I came around yesterday: When U select the VM Backup, It took mine 100GB VM around 7 hours to do the initial backup only to end up in an error saying: Failed. Idk if I did something wrong but Is there something I can provide you with so you can take a look at? Don‘t think it is supposed to do that

Also: Is there a way to implement a solution that If the Upload is busy i.e for example remote streaming for Plex, to throttle down the upload for Vault? Like a „little“ load balancer? I know its super niche but it is one of the things that came to mind when selecting the date and time for the backup

Hello, under settings you can download a diagnostic log. That will help to troubleshoot the issue.

Hi everyone,

First of all, I want to say a huge thank you to @PanicMechanic007 for this plugin and the Home Assistant integration.

I’m currently running into a frustrating issue where the plugin configuration doesn’t seem to persist properly after a server reboot.

The issue: I have configured multiple backup jobs, but every time I restart the server, the WebUI reverts to an old state. It’s as if the settings and jobs I configured are lost or reset to a previous version.

What I’ve noticed: I’ve found a folder named .vault on my cache drive ("cache" is the name of my SSD pool).

Inside this folder, I see a vault.db file along with several vault.db.[timestamp] files (I have attached screenshots for reference).

It feels like the plugin is trying to create these database backups, but for some reason, upon reboot, it fails to load the correct/latest vault.db and instead reverts to an old configuration.

Has anyone else experienced this behavior? Or is there a specific way the plugin expects the database to be handled to ensure state persistence?

Any help or advice on how to fix this would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks!

vault-diagnostics-2026-07-19.zip

Edited July 19Jul 19 by emanuele.bordon

13 hours ago, PanicMechanic007 said:

Hello, under settings you can download a diagnostic log. That will help to troubleshoot the issue.

Hello,

U‘re right haven‘t thought of this.

As requested the Diagnostics File

Also: Kudos for the Update Frequency, haven‘t seen this many updates in a while

vault-diagnostics-2026-07-19.zip

Edit: Version 2026.07.07 is a real good update, performance and UI wise, runs like a champ so far

EDIT 2: Since the update this morning, I ran the VM Backup again since why not. 20 Minutes ago, it threw me this error:

New Diagnostics are attached as well

vault-diagnostics-2026-07-19 - NEW 2ND.zip

Edited July 19Jul 19 by deltaexray

15 hours ago, emanuele.bordon said:

Hi everyone,

First of all, I want to say a huge thank you to @PanicMechanic007 for this plugin and the Home Assistant integration.

I’m currently running into a frustrating issue where the plugin configuration doesn’t seem to persist properly after a server reboot.

The issue: I have configured multiple backup jobs, but every time I restart the server, the WebUI reverts to an old state. It’s as if the settings and jobs I configured are lost or reset to a previous version.

What I’ve noticed: I’ve found a folder named .vault on my cache drive ("cache" is the name of my SSD pool).

Inside this folder, I see a vault.db file along with several vault.db.[timestamp] files (I have attached screenshots for reference).

It feels like the plugin is trying to create these database backups, but for some reason, upon reboot, it fails to load the correct/latest vault.db and instead reverts to an old configuration.

Has anyone else experienced this behavior? Or is there a specific way the plugin expects the database to be handled to ensure state persistence?

Any help or advice on how to fix this would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks!

vault-diagnostics-2026-07-19.zip

Update: I've attempted to map the "Temporary Work Area" to a dedicated User Share to ensure persistence, but the setting is not maintained across reboots.

Every time I restart the server, the configuration reverts to default.

If I manually reconfigure the path and restart the Vault service, the plugin works perfectly again.

It seems the plugin fails to save this specific custom path configuration.

Is there a known limitation, my bad, or is there a way to force these settings to persist?

Thanks

19 hours ago, emanuele.bordon said:

Hi everyone,

First of all, I want to say a huge thank you to @PanicMechanic007 for this plugin and the Home Assistant integration.

I’m currently running into a frustrating issue where the plugin configuration doesn’t seem to persist properly after a server reboot.

The issue: I have configured multiple backup jobs, but every time I restart the server, the WebUI reverts to an old state. It’s as if the settings and jobs I configured are lost or reset to a previous version.

What I’ve noticed: I’ve found a folder named .vault on my cache drive ("cache" is the name of my SSD pool).

Inside this folder, I see a vault.db file along with several vault.db.[timestamp] files (I have attached screenshots for reference).

It feels like the plugin is trying to create these database backups, but for some reason, upon reboot, it fails to load the correct/latest vault.db and instead reverts to an old configuration.

Has anyone else experienced this behavior? Or is there a specific way the plugin expects the database to be handled to ensure state persistence?

Any help or advice on how to fix this would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks!

vault-diagnostics-2026-07-19.zip

Hello, thanks for sharing the issue. I'll have a look at the logs and see what's causing the issue.

10 hours ago, deltaexray said:

Hello,

U‘re right haven‘t thought of this.

As requested the Diagnostics File

Also: Kudos for the Update Frequency, haven‘t seen this many updates in a while

vault-diagnostics-2026-07-19.zip

Edit: Version 2026.07.07 is a real good update, performance and UI wise, runs like a champ so far

EDIT 2: Since the update this morning, I ran the VM Backup again since why not. 20 Minutes ago, it threw me this error:

New Diagnostics are attached as well

vault-diagnostics-2026-07-19 - NEW 2ND.zip

Thank you. I will check the logs and make some adjustments to the code.

29 minutes ago, PanicMechanic007 said:

Thank you. I will check the logs and make some adjustments to the code.

Thank you :)

Update: Since Plugin Version 2026.07.09, the current, Backing UP VM‘s is possible and it does it without errors or complications. It is slow‘er, though given with best compression and encryption that is not a surprise. So thank you for the work on your side, it now does exactly what I need

Hey,

I just wanted to check the current status of Vault through my Brave Browser on my desktop and for some reason It loads endlessly to the point where the browser is displaying a "Tab is not responding, wait or leave?" message. I'll restart my pc but from every other client on my network it works. Just as a heads up, Diagnostics are attached, will post if something changes

vault-diagnostics-2026-07-22.zip

1 hour ago, deltaexray said:

Hey,

I just wanted to check the current status of Vault through my Brave Browser on my desktop and for some reason It loads endlessly to the point where the browser is displaying a "Tab is not responding, wait or leave?" message. I'll restart my pc but from every other client on my network it works. Just as a heads up, Diagnostics are attached, will post if something changes

vault-diagnostics-2026-07-22.zip

Same here.

I've found a temp workaround to access it by setting the bind address to a the LAN IP address of the host machine and then I managed to access it via http://hostmachine_ip:port but the links built into the unraid interface no longer work after the latest updates.

44 minutes ago, castores said:

Same here.

I've found a temp workaround to access it by setting the bind address to a the LAN IP address of the host machine and then I managed to access it via http://hostmachine_ip:port but the links built into the unraid interface no longer work after the latest updates.

Well, Sometimes it is good to post the random stuff that happens :)

For some odd reason, accessing it from an iPad works

24 minutes ago, deltaexray said:

Well, Sometimes it is good to post the random stuff that happens :)

For some odd reason, accessing it from an iPad works

it seems to be just a Brave issue, it does open for me as well on Safari (macOS, not iOS).

5 minutes ago, castores said:

it seems to be just a Brave issue, it does open for me as well on Safari (macOS, not iOS).

I guess so, wonder why that is though. Years back I had massive issues with Firefox but not that weird. Well, we‘ll see I guess

@PanicMechanic007

For your information, with last release 2026.07.09, my problem is resolved... ;)

Thanks for your support

Quick Update: Version 2026.07.10 solved the Brave issue for me completely, so thank you for that. Also: the little File Browser next to the Storage location is a really good add in feature, so THANK YOU for that. Even with filesize indication, I don‘t know how you came up with the idea for this plugin but this is legit better than most paid options out there. Kudos to you:)

This is an extensive piece of software. Thank you!

But I'm getting hit with: write /mnt/cache/.vault-stage/backup-: no space left on device.

I cannot see that my storage devices are full, so it leaves me to think that it is the default cache disk that is full?

My unraid cache disk is a Samsung NVMe 256 Gig disk with about 70 GB space left on device right now... could it really be this on that gets filled up during backups?

I'll throw in a few wishes here as well:

• Make folder exclusions global

• I think adding support for folder exclusions through docker labels would be more dynamic and easier than the way folder exclusions are done today

• postgres / mariadb / mysql backup?

Thanks again for your excellent work