Is this project dead now?

thestraycat commented 11 months ago

I really like some of the features of it... but am a bit concerned trusting my backups to it if it's now defunct. That'd be a shame :(

Anyone?

realizelol commented 11 months ago

I don't have any clues doing backups with this plugin at the moment. I've also done a lot of normal and disaster recoveries.

There's some little things I would see fixed/added:

Also allow pmsuspended (S3) not only hibernated (S4) VMs.
Skip cdroms / iso files.
VMs with name "element" like e.g. elementaryOS will set all other VMs twice in the "backup-list".

I nice to have would be:

A restore via webGUI. -> Restore Guide could be found here: https://github.com/JTok/unraid.vmbackup/issues/31#issuecomment-1019550796 Maybe you should also do virsh define /etc/libvirt/qemu/Windows.xml to let libvirt know that the file has been added or changed.

For the first two things I could add a PR if it would be okay to set variables in curly braces. VM names thing must be somewhere in include/javascript/vmbackup.js in function rebuild_current_configs or append_new_config. But I'm not familiar with javascript.

My current version: Unraid 6.12.4

thestraycat commented 11 months ago

This seems dead to me tbh,

i think the author has mentioned he dosn't even use Unraid anymore based off the unraid support forum thread. If only it had been left in a working state... I'm running the development branch as the master branch plugin dosnt survive a reboot in unraid anymore without uninstalling (moved to erroring plugin section), and the pre/post script boxes in the plugin wont save anything pasted into them..

Shame.

JTok commented 11 months ago

The project is mostly dead on my end due to a lack of time with my job and life over the last couple of years. Happy to turn it over to someone else for development. I do use UnRAID still and the plugin still works for me oddly enough, so I haven't given much thought to it. I will eventually bang on it some more as I find myself with free-time, but there is a reason I never took this out of beta. Wish I had better news for you.

-JTok

thestraycat commented 10 months ago

Thanks for the reply. I believe there is an issue with it surviving unraid reboots for a lot of people may have something due to how it was originally installed? ...other than, i'm a fan and love using it, but having to reinstall it after an update gets tedious... :(

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