unraid-autovmbackup: automate backup of virtual machines in unRAID - v0.4
WARNING - PLEASE CONSIDER THIS A WORK IN PROGRESS. I HAVE TESTED IT ON MY SERVER AND THERE WAS NO ISSUE BUT THAT DOESNT MEAN IN ANY WAY IT IS FREE FROM BUGS/ISSUS SO PLEASE USE AT YOUR OWN RISK UNTIL IT HAS BEEN TESTED FURTHER - WARNING
Well, this is what happens when I am in hospital with nothing to do but wait for tests. For those who don't like what I have done, then I am sorry!
Anyway, I was discussing the need for backup of Virtual Machine vdisks. I certainly need a method that
@JTok - Thanks for the shout out, and thanks for reviewing and releasing my changes so quickly! I did this as much for my own benefit as anything else.
Just to give everyone a bit of an idea of how much faster and more efficient this new inline compression option is, here are some results from one of my UnRaid servers:
I currently have 4 (fairly small) VMs on this server (Win10, Win7, Arch Linux, and AsteriskNOW) running on a NVMe unassigned device and backing up dir