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JTok / unraid.vmbackup

a plugin for backing up VMs in unRAID including vdisks and configuration files.
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Backup to Disks #19

Open flallnatural opened 4 years ago

flallnatural commented 4 years ago

Hello,

I was trying to find a way to backup VMs to disks (external) rather than shares and can't seem to find that option. Manually setting the path also seems to not work. The CA appdata Backup Plugin allows to backup appdata to an external disk and works well.

Am I not configuring something correctly? The plugin is in default configuration otherwise.

Thanks.

JTok commented 3 years ago

The plugin should be able to read shares mounted with the unassigned devices plugin.

The help text for "Set Backup Location" says:

Folder location to save backups. Must be full path.

-     This should be an unassigned device, or a share you have already created.
-     Each VM will have a subfolder made for it in this location.
-     To change the dropdown menu from /mnt/users/ to /mnt/, disable restrictive validation.
-     Any typed path in /mnt/ will validate. If a different path is needed, disable restrictive validation.

Which means that depending on your backup path, you may need to disable restrictive validation in the Danger Zone tab.