I watched the SpaceInvaderOne videos on creating backups manually and automatically and it made me wonder, is there an easier way to do this? In ESXi this was a simple, 1 click process to create or restore backups. In UnRAID is it really necessary to install a plugin to do the same thing?

1 hour ago, nosuch said:

I watched the SpaceInvaderOne videos on creating backups manually and automatically and it made me wonder, is there an easier way to do this? In ESXi this was a simple, 1 click process to create or restore backups. In UnRAID is it really necessary to install a plugin to do the same thing?

With Putty, you can actually set it up to run a pre-made sh script on the server from your VM OS. Alternatively you can user CA User Scripts plugin to do the same. Then all you need to do is for the script to tell virsh to shutdown your VM, cp/rsync to create a dup of the vdisk, sleep to wait a certain amount of time and then virsh again to start the VM back up.

 

With the right script and Putty, I can do it in one click (well a double click because of Windows).