IamSpartacus Posted November 1, 2018 Share Posted November 1, 2018 Is it possible to ONLY backup the Unraid USB using this plugin? It doesn't seem to let me save the USB backup destination unless I also have an Appdata share source/destination configured. Quote Link to comment
Squid Posted November 1, 2018 Author Share Posted November 1, 2018 No. Its primarily for appdata, and flash/vm is basically an afterthought for it. Use Main, Boot Device, click on Flash then click Backup Quote Link to comment
IamSpartacus Posted November 1, 2018 Share Posted November 1, 2018 8 minutes ago, Squid said: No. Its primarily for appdata, and flash/vm is basically an afterthought for it. Use Main, Boot Device, click on Flash then click Backup I see. So there is no other way to schedule a monthly flash backup? Quote Link to comment
Squid Posted November 1, 2018 Author Share Posted November 1, 2018 What you could do is give the source of appdata a b.s. folder name (ie: /Chode) and some scratch share on the array for a destination. In advanced options, set every container to stay running. Then it'll just backup the flash I do see however that the plugin has an issue with 6.6.3 where the dropdowns for selection are not showing the text unless you hover over them (some styling issue with dynamix), so you've got to type it in. Quote Link to comment
knex666 Posted March 18, 2019 Share Posted March 18, 2019 Hi, I am getting into trouble uninstalling the plugin. I would like to use v2 insted of it. Warning: rename(,/boot/config/plugins-removed/): No such file or directory in /usr/local/emhttp/plugins/dynamix.plugin.manager/scripts/plugin on line 358 Quote Link to comment
Squid Posted March 18, 2019 Author Share Posted March 18, 2019 Not quite sure why it's doing that. You can always just make sure that /config/plugins does not have the ca.backup.plg file present and then reboot Quote Link to comment
wayner Posted March 18, 2019 Share Posted March 18, 2019 Last week I tried to manually delete some old backups from my array and although I am not 100% sure this cause my unRAID system to become unresponsive. I also changed the options for this plugin to clean up old backups and when the backup ran earlier this morning it appears that my system is again unresponsive. I got a message that the backup completed at 4:49 am. At 5:01am I got a message that one of my VMs went down and I can't access my array nor can I access the web UI. (I am now at work until 6:30pm EDT and don't have access to do anything until then.) I thought I remembered reading that at times when you are deleting backups in can cause problems with your system. Is that still the case? Any advice on how to fix this? Quote Link to comment
trurl Posted March 18, 2019 Share Posted March 18, 2019 15 minutes ago, wayner said: I thought I remembered reading that at times when you are deleting backups in can cause problems with your system. Is that still the case? Any advice on how to fix this? If you could give us a link to what you were reading we might be able to judge whether that was reliable information. And with nothing more to go on than you have given us it is very uncertain whether this plugin is involved or something else is going on. You might try troubleshooting the problem yourself by eliminating this plugin and see if it continues to happen. Also see the Need Help? sticky for some ideas on how you can get us more information: Quote Link to comment
wayner Posted March 18, 2019 Share Posted March 18, 2019 Here is a post from joenitro on Aug 21, 2017 that seems to describe the exact same issue. Unfortunately there isn't much of a resolution suggested. There are also posts just prior to this with similar issues. Quote Link to comment
trurl Posted March 18, 2019 Share Posted March 18, 2019 8 minutes ago, wayner said: Here is a post from joenitro on Aug 21, 2017 that seems to describe the exact same issue. Unfortunately there isn't much of a resolution suggested. There are also posts just prior to this with similar issues. Just reviewed this and many pages after that before I realized. This thread is for the deprecated V1 plugin. Is that the version you are still running? If so, uninstall it and install the V2 plugin from the Apps page. You can always go directly to the correct support thread for any plugin from its listing on the Apps page. Quote Link to comment
wayner Posted March 18, 2019 Share Posted March 18, 2019 Thanks, I will check and see but I may have to first do a power cycle on the server to get it back to life, or at least a reboot command at the CLI. I can ssh into the server but the web UI is unresponsive. Quote Link to comment
trurl Posted March 18, 2019 Share Posted March 18, 2019 Just now, wayner said: Thanks, I will check and see but I may have to first do a power cycle on the server to get it back to life, or at least a reboot command at the CLI. I can ssh into the server but the web UI is unresponsive. If you read the Need Help sticky I linked earlier it explains how to use the command line to get information useful in troubleshooting. And it would also be pretty simple to just take a look in /boot/config/plugins and see how old your plugins are. Quote Link to comment
trurl Posted March 18, 2019 Share Posted March 18, 2019 Here is a command to list your plugins from the command line if you're interested: ls -lah /boot/config/plugins Quote Link to comment
wayner Posted March 18, 2019 Share Posted March 18, 2019 Thanks trurl - I will check that out when I get home tonight. Quote Link to comment
kizer Posted March 18, 2019 Share Posted March 18, 2019 @Squid Just wanted to say thanks again for this Plugin. I'm having an issue with a SSD drive and did a quick backup from the questionable SSD to a Portable Drive and restore to the Known Good SSD and I'm off and running in less than an hour. I'm sure I've thank'd you in the past, but hey just wanted to thank you again. Lol Quote Link to comment
wayner Posted March 18, 2019 Share Posted March 18, 2019 9 hours ago, trurl said: Here is a command to list your plugins from the command line if you're interested: ls -lah /boot/config/plugins So when I do that I see a ca.backup directory dated Nov 1 2017. Does that mean it is the old one? And what is the least risky way to bring my system back to life? Doing a reboot command in the ssh session? Quote Link to comment
Squid Posted March 18, 2019 Author Share Posted March 18, 2019 1 hour ago, kizer said: @Squid Just wanted to say thanks again for this Plugin. I'm having an issue with a SSD drive and did a quick backup from the questionable SSD to a Portable Drive and restore to the Known Good SSD and I'm off and running in less than an hour. I'm sure I've thank'd you in the past, but hey just wanted to thank you again. Lol Hey, not a problem. Thank-you 🍻 Quote Link to comment
wayner Posted March 18, 2019 Share Posted March 18, 2019 Just to clarify, here is the plugin that was installed. A Backup / Restore Appdata Part of the CA family, CA Backup / Restore Appdata will either manually or on a schedule, automatically backup your docker appdata for easy restoring in case of a cache drive failure Andrew Zawadzki 2017.10.28 up-to-date Quote Link to comment
trurl Posted March 19, 2019 Share Posted March 19, 2019 29 minutes ago, wayner said: Just to clarify, here is the plugin that was installed. A Backup / Restore Appdata Part of the CA family, CA Backup / Restore Appdata will either manually or on a schedule, automatically backup your docker appdata for easy restoring in case of a cache drive failure Andrew Zawadzki 2017.10.28 up-to-date As mentioned, this is the deprecated plugin thread. You should remove that one and get the new one from the Apps page. It's current version is 2019.03.09 Do you have other plugins that need updating? What version of Unraid are you on? Quote Link to comment
wayner Posted March 19, 2019 Share Posted March 19, 2019 I am a bit out of date on 6.4.1. One on my primary uses for unRAID is to act as a SageTV server so I have to ensure that the DVB edition is updated and works properly with SageTV. How do I know what other plugins are out of date. I do update the plugins but that wouldn't have helped in this instance. For all of my other plugins, other than unRAID DVB edition, the plugin version is from 2019 with the exception of Dynamix System Statistics from 2018.08.29a. When I try to update it it wants me to be on version 6.7.0rc1. Out of curiousity - how would I ever know that this Backup plugin was deprecated? Shouldn't it say that in the release notes, as in "No longer supported, move to version 2 of this plugin". If I try to delete the backups again is it still going to hang my server? Am I stuck with those files until I get rid of the drives that the files are on? Quote Link to comment
Squid Posted March 19, 2019 Author Share Posted March 19, 2019 40 minutes ago, wayner said: Out of curiousity - how would I ever know that this Backup plugin was deprecated? Shouldn't it say that in the release notes, as in "No longer supported, move to version 2 of this plugin". Fix Common Problems plugin would have let you know. But, beyond that the original version does work (for most users). Deleting of the backup sets and creating new ones and locking up the server for some users is why it got deprecated. I would just delete the .plg from the config/plugins folder on the flash drive, reboot, then plug away at deleting the folders within the backup one at a time Quote Link to comment
wayner Posted March 19, 2019 Share Posted March 19, 2019 And delete them using an rm command from a bash prompt? Quote Link to comment
trurl Posted March 19, 2019 Share Posted March 19, 2019 1 hour ago, wayner said: I am a bit out of date on 6.4.1. One on my primary uses for unRAID is to act as a SageTV server so I have to ensure that the DVB edition is updated and works properly with SageTV. Quote Link to comment
rgreenpc Posted May 13, 2019 Share Posted May 13, 2019 Squid - Any idea why or how my apps aren't restarting after appdata backup? Nothing in the log shows they even were attempted restarts. Quote Link to comment
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