jeffreywhunter Posted June 8, 2017 Share Posted June 8, 2017 Quick question on replacing a cache drive. The process is very simple. Shutdown. Swap drive. Reboot. Select new drive as Parity. Run appdata restore. Correct? Quote Link to comment
JonathanM Posted June 8, 2017 Share Posted June 8, 2017 2 minutes ago, jeffreywhunter said: Quick question on replacing a cache drive. 2 minutes ago, jeffreywhunter said: Select new drive as Parity. Quote Link to comment
jeffreywhunter Posted June 8, 2017 Share Posted June 8, 2017 Just now, jonathanm said: Sorry, meant to say Cache! Critical oversight... Quote Link to comment
JonathanM Posted June 8, 2017 Share Posted June 8, 2017 https://wiki.lime-technology.com/Replace_A_Cache_Drive Quote Link to comment
Squid Posted June 8, 2017 Author Share Posted June 8, 2017 The rough directions on restoring appdata are on the restore tab Quote Link to comment
fc0712 Posted June 8, 2017 Share Posted June 8, 2017 Hey as far as i understand rclone Google drive backup doesnt work very well due to hard links what's your preferred way to backup is it just an external drive plugged in via unassigned devices? Quote Link to comment
Squid Posted June 8, 2017 Author Share Posted June 8, 2017 12 minutes ago, fc0712 said: Hey as far as i understand rclone Google drive backup doesnt work very well due to hard links what's your preferred way to backup is it just an external drive plugged in via unassigned devices? Personally, I backup to the array. Nothing within my appdata is so critical that I need offsite / outside of the array backups. Quote Link to comment
wgstarks Posted June 8, 2017 Share Posted June 8, 2017 1 hour ago, Squid said: 1 hour ago, fc0712 said: Hey as far as i understand rclone Google drive backup doesnt work very well due to hard links what's your preferred way to backup is it just an external drive plugged in via unassigned devices? Personally, I backup to the array. Nothing within my appdata is so critical that I need offsite / outside of the array backups. You can backup to a UD mounted drive though. It's what I do. Quote Link to comment
Squid Posted June 9, 2017 Author Share Posted June 9, 2017 19 hours ago, wgstarks said: You can backup to a UD mounted drive though. It's what I do. Not all file systems will work though. IIRC HFS has problems with links. XFS will work no problems. Not sure about NTFS Quote Link to comment
Squid Posted June 11, 2017 Author Share Posted June 11, 2017 Found the issue. (Bug has actually been in there since day #1, but with the updated PHP version in 6.4, the bug is now a fatal error whereas before it was simply a warning). Temporary fix is to disable notifications on the Backup. Will release an update later tonight to address this (and have libvirt.img backed up) Quote Link to comment
Diggewuff Posted June 11, 2017 Share Posted June 11, 2017 (edited) Hey, I accidentally deleted my whole cache drive (/appdata /system /domains is gone) and need to restore my VMs. I backed up VM XMLs using this Plugin. Is there any explanation how to restore my VMs using the backed up XMLs? Edited June 11, 2017 by Diggewuff Quote Link to comment
bobbintb Posted June 12, 2017 Share Posted June 12, 2017 16 hours ago, Diggewuff said: Hey, I accidentally deleted my whole cache drive (/appdata /system /domains is gone) and need to restore my VMs. I backed up VM XMLs using this Plugin. Is there any explanation how to restore my VMs using the backed up XMLs? I'd just copy and paste it into the 'edit XML' page of the VM. Quote Link to comment
Squid Posted June 12, 2017 Author Share Posted June 12, 2017 Until I get time to release the next update that will instead backup libvirt, that's the only way to do it. Copy and paste the contents from the backup location into a custom template. See a couple of posts up Quote Link to comment
Diggewuff Posted June 12, 2017 Share Posted June 12, 2017 OK, I already thought to do so. Do I got it right that this will start a reinstall of the VM? Quote Link to comment
bobbintb Posted June 12, 2017 Share Posted June 12, 2017 36 minutes ago, Diggewuff said: OK, I already thought to do so. Do I got it right that this will start a reinstall of the VM? I don't know what you mean by reinstall. The XML is just a settings file. If the hard drive (virtual or physical) is still in the place the XML says it is it should be fine. Quote Link to comment
Squid Posted June 12, 2017 Author Share Posted June 12, 2017 Switched from backing up VM XML's (and NVRAM) to instead backing up the libvirt.img. Will make restoration easier of a VM. As before, restoration of the libvirt.img is a manual process, and is not part of Restore Appdata System is now compatible with 6.4 when notifications are enabled. All 6.4 users are advised to reboot after installing this update in order to put the system back into a known state. Quote Link to comment
local.bin Posted June 15, 2017 Share Posted June 15, 2017 On 2017-5-1 at 9:32 PM, Squid said: When it happens again, try either from the local console (or via Putty / SSH) logging in and entering diagnostics and then post the resulting file here. Also zip up the backup log when it happens, upload it to drop box, and post the link... Apologies, I couldn't recall what you had said and I submitted a bug report using the 'Feedback' menu option. It says NOTE: Submission of this bug report will automatically send your system diagnostics to Lime Technology. So they have been submitted. Will that file that was sent be saved on my system somewhere so I can share as well? Quote Link to comment
trurl Posted June 15, 2017 Share Posted June 15, 2017 1 minute ago, local.bin said: Apologies, I couldn't recall what you had said and I submitted a bug report using the 'Feedback' menu option. It says NOTE: Submission of this bug report will automatically send your system diagnostics to Lime Technology. So they have been submitted. Will that file that was sent be saved on my system somewhere so I can share as well? For future reference, plugins are not the responsibility of Lime Technology, and plugin authors don't receive bug reports submitted by Feedback. If 'Feedback' does save your diagnostics they would be on your flash drive. If it's not there you will have to get another to share with the plugin author (Squid). Quote Link to comment
local.bin Posted June 15, 2017 Share Posted June 15, 2017 (edited) 8 minutes ago, trurl said: For future reference, plugins are not the responsibility of Lime Technology, and plugin authors don't receive bug reports submitted by Feedback. If 'Feedback' does save your diagnostics they would be on your flash drive. If it's not there you will have to get another to share with the plugin author (Squid). Sure, understood, but its not at all clear that its plugin related. It hasn't happened for over a month and backup has been running ok. Edit: Looks like the diags are not saved to stick when sent via Feedback. Edited June 15, 2017 by local.bin Quote Link to comment
thaddeussmith Posted June 17, 2017 Share Posted June 17, 2017 It looks like in my case there was an issue with mover kicking off while the backup scripts were still running. Flipped start times so that mover always finishes before app backup kicks off and it has run successfully twice, including plex. Quote Link to comment
wayner Posted June 20, 2017 Share Posted June 20, 2017 I have scheduled this plugin it to run every week and I have selected the "Put backups into separate dated sub folders?" option. But when I click apply it still warns me that all files and folders in my destination backup folder will be deleted. But isn't it using a sub-dated folder from this folder, in which case nothing will be deleted, unless (perhaps) it is the second backup that day. Quote Link to comment
Squid Posted June 20, 2017 Author Share Posted June 20, 2017 2 minutes ago, wayner said: I have scheduled this plugin it to run every week and I have selected the "Put backups into separate dated sub folders?" option. But when I click apply it still warns me that all files and folders in my destination backup folder will be deleted. But isn't it using a sub-dated folder from this folder, in which case nothing will be deleted, unless (perhaps) it is the second backup that day. Just a stock warning... Quote Link to comment
alfi33 Posted June 25, 2017 Share Posted June 25, 2017 I'd like the USB Backup Destination to be a separate destination than the Appdata backups, but I'd also like the USB backups to be in separate dated sub folders (like they are when I use same destination as Appdata). Is this possible? Quote Link to comment
Squid Posted June 25, 2017 Author Share Posted June 25, 2017 Just now, alfi33 said: I'd like the USB Backup Destination to be a separate destination than the Appdata backups, but I'd also like the USB backups to be in separate dated sub folders (like they are when I use same destination as Appdata). Is this possible? No it's currently not possible. To have it as part of dated backups, it has to be part of the appdata. Not impossible for me to add (and its been sitting on my back burner for awhile). Realistically, there's not particularly anything on the flash drive that's updated constantly that you'd ever need to worry about having to go back where last week's backup isn't identical to the one made 2 weeks ago. Its why I never particularly worried about it. Quote Link to comment
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