June 15, 201610 yr I just discovered the "Backup Appdata" community application that was recently added under the GUI Settings tab and it is fantastic! Is it possible to have something like this to automatically stop my running windows VMs and back up their vdisk1.img files and then restart them?
June 15, 201610 yr You could setup a cron script that stopes your VM, rsync the VM, then start it up again. Personally I think doing that is a waste of time. What I do is get my VM (let's say it's a Windows VM) all setup and my core applications installed, all windows updates ect. And then make a copy of that VM. Then I use that VM for a few months and when Windows starts to get slower (bc I installed junk or whatever is causing it to slow down) I just copy back that "fresh" Windows image and it is just like a freshly formatted Windows machine. I don't save anything to my local VM, instead I just save all the important documents to my unRAID server so I never loose anything when I do this. Just my 2 cents.
June 15, 201610 yr Author Not as simple for me, if my VM crashed I would want to restore it to a near current state. And I'm definitely not a linux guy so just hearing the word "script" is enough to scare me away! :-) I would love to see an "easy button" to do this in the unraid GUI, just like the backup appdata function!
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