February 14, 20197 yr Hello btrfs snapshot manager gui so it is easier to setup, manage and restore snapshot. Allso integrate VMs so a single VM can have several snapshots to star from and ability to restore (revert changes) on VM shutdown. I started looking into btrfs and found it confusing on creation and management of snapshots by terminal. I am used to have virtualbox with snapshots at work and thought it would be cool to start using snapshots on my system.
June 7, 20197 yr +1 (yes please!) We are currently testing unRAID as a testrig for our projects. We have been using virtual machines with VMware Player or virtualbox. Cloning virtual machines from a fully set up base VM to one-time-use machines has been very helpful to keep VMs nice and clean. As our tests sometimes rely on additinal hardware (special PCI based interface cards), the VMs were not able to do the trick because we could not use those cards and had to go back to bare metal which has the downside of beeing everybodies testrig. unRAID helps us having the best of both worlds but we are missing a very easy to use method of cloning machines (not everybody here feels very comfotable with CLI). It would be great to have an additional entry in the context menu to create a clone of a VM (using cp --reflink for the disks and taking care of renaming whats necessary, maybe opening a dialog for customizing of necessary stuff like cpu assignment or device assingnment) Cheers Max
June 14, 20197 yr +1 with snapshot management and correctly editing xml files of vm unraid would become much more user friendly.
June 15, 20197 yr +1 Would absolutely love to see this. I imagine it won't show up until 6.8 or later, registering interest none-the-less.
June 16, 20197 yr Me too! I've got quite a few VMs and could really take advantage of this feature when added. Edited June 16, 20197 yr by GHunter
June 20, 20197 yr Yep, coming from some other NAS type tools, this end of the spectrum is a bit lacklustre in Unraid. Though I hold hope that it will flourish and be as well implemented as the rest of unraid. +1 from me!
January 8, 20206 yr I would love it to be able to use BTRFS snapshots in a GUI (Setup Snapshots) and beeing able to set up BTRFS snapshotting (send / receive) to another Unraid Server, this would be a really nice and powerful feature i would never miss! Hope this will be implemented soon! so there is another +1 from me
October 9, 20205 yr The same for me. So many hypervisors (Proxmox, ESXI, Synology VM plugin etc) have a snapshot / restore function for VM's integrated in the GUI. It would be a significant added value for Unraid. Greetings from Bavaria
April 7, 20215 yr wanted to bring that up again: +1 if not LT, maybe there is an interested comunity developer? the snapshots are not only interesting for the vms, but also for general btrfs, since we can use multiple pools now take me for example, i have a raid5 pool of 5 hdds with most my live date (i know raid 5 and 6 are experimental) and would love to take controlled snapshots via a gui (i am not so familiar with console on not windows os, sry) greetings from vienna Edited April 7, 20215 yr by der8ertl typo
May 28, 20215 yr To be honest I am shocked that snapshots are not a core component of unraid already. This is a basic feature of storage based OS's for many years at this point. Heck even windows has snapshots lol. A GUI to manage snapshots would be amazing, I have scripts that do it now but I will take a GUI option over CLI any day.
May 28, 20215 yr 56 minutes ago, TexasUnraid said: To be honest I am shocked that snapshots are not a core component of unraid already. This is a basic feature of storage based OS's for many years at this point. Heck even windows has snapshots lol. A GUI to manage snapshots would be amazing, I have scripts that do it now but I will take a GUI option over CLI any day. +1
July 2, 20215 yr If you're looking for a GUI to interact with VM snapshots with today, you can use virt-manager with unraid. That's what I use and I like it a lot. Keep in mind you can't snapshot ovmf machines (that's not unraid's fault its an old bug/limitation with KVM that I'm surprised isn't fixed) and you'll need to change how the VMs are stored because their states will be lost on reboot otherwise. (unraid by default creates its VMs from scratch essentially every time it boots but it has no system to maintain snapshot information). Certainly would appreciate some tools for btrfs though, I have to go all command line with that.
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