Ed - Still hopping for the UrBackup video. I believe I have it setup and running, but not very confident of it. Missing your well thought out and through tutorials.
Got to be so thankful to you Spaceinvader one. I started back in 2019 watching your unraid videos and still to this day they are and you're so helpful to the community. My gratitude can't even be explained in words. Thank you very much.
I think the primary reason why I haven't set this up is that I don't trust any of it to work in the event of a disaster. However, since I'm a professional at ruining my MBR, I might do this anyways while waiting for your urbackup video. Thanks again!
True that. I have tested this solution and Windows sami-fails to backup in a variety of ways. Why only sami fails? 1. Backups up everything, even excluded directories. 2. Shows that backup failed at the very end, even if everything seems to be backed up.
Thank you!! I finally got my 2nd Unraid Server up and running and first thing I did was come to you to find out how to backup my PC. Very easy to follow!
Great video, thank you for all the work you put into this channel. Did the urbackup video ever get made? I can not find it. I'm trying to decide between urbackup and syncthing. I'm still pretty new to this, my unraid server is still not in it's final place or final configuration but getting closer now.
As always superb content! Looking forward to the urbackup video :-) Also still very excited for the promised video on a backup unraid server, that'll overtake web services when the main server goes down!
Hi Ed, Interesting video, always well presented. Would have I like to see the completion of the installing nextcloud series (only office elastic search with nextcloud and only office with nextcloud) and the Making an Auto Backup / Failover Server series
I recently had a scare with a hard drive failing me for one day which I had not backed up in years. I had been putting off backing up my pc on my UnRaid so I ended up doing this after the scare. Some things I didn't know when I did it. So this is very helpful. Thank you.
You are really helpful, thanks to you everything is easier, even a novice like me can do difficult things. Thank you so much. you are a help to the community
This guide does not work great with Windows 11. I was able to find the old control panel version of these settings, but would you consider making these videos for Windows 11 as well?
Love it / Thanks !! If i´m allowed to ask; Could you make a video tutorial like this for a Windows VM-Backup (in UnRaid) ? Like how UnRaid automatically / scheduled stops the VM (if necessary) and make a full image backup which i can use Plug´n´Play to boot from in UnRaid if the VM got corrupted etc. That would be awesome !!
Another awesome video just what I needed for my daughters Windows PC. I've been running UnRaid for almost 2 years thanks to your videos. I'm really looking forward to a video on the UnRaid setup and configuration of the metasearch-engine SearXNG.
well Ed as you spoke my 6 tera byte just died thought I had file history on put i didn't and I didn't know how to backup on unraid but I will now thnks to you
Forget this and use Macrium instead. Even the free version if you have to but you can save a little more disk space with the home paid version. Macrium will do a bare metal backup of your boot disk whereas Windows BU won't. You can also mount any of your old images and browse them for historical file recovery.
I agree, I really like Macrium Reflect backup program. Just like the Windows backup, it requires you to make a "boot disk" (CD, USB stick, etc). But unlike Windows, you CAN store multiple "generations/versions" of backups. As Matt said, there is a free version, if I remember correctly the free one only does full image backups (and for many people that is perfectly fine). If you pay for the program, you can also do "incremental" or "differential" backups, which are faster to create. (I prefer "differential" backups because it ONLY requires the main backup image and then ONLY ONE of the differential images (usually the most recent). An "incremental" backup is even faster to create, but for a restore you need the main backup image and (usually) EVERY incremental file since then.) I have two unRAID systems - one only houses backups of all the household PCs. I do weekly backups, so it is only up one or two days a week. On other days it is totally shut down so I know nothing can get to it. (My other unRAID is a shared system that houses photos, videos, shared data files, etc so all household computers can get to these.) You can run the Macrium backups manually, or you can schedule them to run at set times. You can tell it how many versions to retain, you can set it up to e-mail you once a backup is done (or if it has problems). You can password protect your images if desired. A very nice program, been using it for YEARS. And, as Space Invader says, your system can crash at any time (new PCs, old PCs, etc) - and I HAVE had several occasions where I have used Macrium to restore a system that crashed - man what a life saver!.
BTW - having to make a "boot disk" (CD, USB stick, whatever) is a GOOD thing. This allows you to boot to the CD/USB/etc device's operating system and thus no files are locked on your C: drive. Thus allowing the restore to work MUCH better. You normally only use the boot disk when doing a restore, but I do suggest you test booting to it on occasion. Your regular backup process runs from your normal Window's boot - the boot disk is not involved on a day-to-day basis. Just file the boot disk away someplace safe and test it (and recreate it) occasionally.
When trying to make a full image, it wouldn't accept my network access credentials (username and password - see 10:41) until I added the server name. So Username = TOWER\username if you're on the default Unraid sever name of TOWER. No idea why, but after that it all unfolded exactly as above.
I've tried this multiple times (even before your video) and for whatever reason it always fails with the error "Network location unavailable." (or something to that effect) right after it builds the system image. The other backup files exist on the share though. It's the same issue either with my Laptop or my Desktop.
@SpaceInvader One - Thanks for the latest tutorial. If you are struggling with content ideas, I think an episode on how to set up and configure Searx/Searxng would be good. installation is straightforward on Unraid, but making it publicly accessible and setting up HTTPS is harder said than done :)
When i click on "add a drive" it will only show my local HDD but it will not show the network drives. I don't even have the option for "show all network locations". Any ideas what the issue is?
Seems like later versions of Win 10 don't have the same controls. I only want to backup a single external drive and I don't have the option of selecting that drive or ignoring Windows libraries, etc.
So I decided to try Urbackup and it worked great until the container was restarted (or server) and then it would not let me log in to the webgui, logs shows login failed error. Asked about this on the unraid forum and the Urbackup forum, no answer so this wont work for me.
Newbie question: are the samba shares for Windows and TimeMachine backups formatted to ntfs / hfs or does Unraid use some sort of universal format like exfat (I saw xfs) ... does this change with zfs - can zfs pools have filesystems within it''s filesystem?? sorry bit confused but eager to try proxmox/unraid with zfs..
7:55 question, will it do a full drive backup?! Say I want it to back up "m" drive entirely (data drive), could I set it or do I have to select folder(s) within a drive? Now to figure this out for win 7...
This works until your PC back is larger than you biggest disk (10tb) then the windows backup constantly fails. I’m using Backblaze at the moment for offsite, but I’ll probably need to get a larger unraid disk to support this or maybe I have something misconfigured?
When you created the share, don't you need to choose minimum disk spaces? Depending on your Windows setup, that recovery image could be terabyte in size of full.
I’ve tried this, and I’m backing up from an nvme m.2 SSD to my cache drive (which is a raid0 with 2 nvme m.2 drives) with share set to “yes”. It is ABBYSMALLY slow, a 200 gb full backup, i started running this around 6pm, its no 4am, and we’re on 50%. My network is 1 GBS. I don’t get why this is so slow.
Would it be fair to say that if i only wanted to back up the files (not so much the history but i guess it wouldnt hurt) then i should just go the file history route? i dont have a need to recover the entire image, just the files.
Do spaceinvader1 daily drive a Linux desktop/laptop? What is your favorite distro? I would love to see a video on setting up a Linux VM for gaming and integrating the unraid shares with it.
Thanks! Howver, Isnt this solution very sbjective to virusses/ransomware with write access to the shares? If it infects the backed up files, you are redtoring infected files and/or fail to do so as they will have been encrypted in the meanwhile..
you always put out very informative videos! I tried the windows backup but as always MS Windows wouldn't let me connect to the network to restore the settings even through the ethernet. So I'm going the UrBackup route, windows backups always give me a headache, as opposed to macOS Time Machine.
Ive tried this before this video released and it failed so i tried following this video and it still failed i dont rate windows backup at all i just use software too back up every now and again
Just use Acronis and treat an Unraid share as your 'backups' target. Backing up Unraid? Whole other thing. Not had much luck, Rclone seems to miss files.
@@SpaceinvaderOne I’ll give it a look as well. The ability to do individual file and folder restores as well as the system image for free is one of my favorite things to do in a home server.
Any chances of encrypting the backup? Given the data is written to the unraid hard drive, if it got stolen would mean full access to the original PC data?
such a shame in wondows 11 you dont have the ability to specify which folders you wish to add to backup, it just blankets all libraries and you have the option to exclude
@@christianscandi I'll look up what error code I got and post it in here. The backup went through the first time, but kept producing errors on completion on subsequent ones.
@@christianscandi Windows 11 requires an MS online account now and you basically have to hack it to get a local account. Backups are done through the online MS account. I have already used it 2 times to restore a PC that have been testing hardware on. So options to do backups aren't even there to be searched. Mind you I am on 2H22 22621.105 not the plebe version.
ua-cam.com/video/5bwrd7dHjqs/v-deo.html Awesome videos love your work! I do have a question about the security setting. You say "I am going to leave it public for the moment." Do you ever change it off of public to private? I can't change mine off of public to private and I cant seem to find a part in the video where you do change it off of that setting.
Ed - Still hopping for the UrBackup video. I believe I have it setup and running, but not very confident of it. Missing your well thought out and through tutorials.
Got to be so thankful to you Spaceinvader one. I started back in 2019 watching your unraid videos and still to this day they are and you're so helpful to the community. My gratitude can't even be explained in words. Thank you very much.
I really appreciate your comment. Glad you like the videos. Thanks for watching :)
I think the primary reason why I haven't set this up is that I don't trust any of it to work in the event of a disaster. However, since I'm a professional at ruining my MBR, I might do this anyways while waiting for your urbackup video. Thanks again!
True that.
I have tested this solution and Windows sami-fails to backup in a variety of ways.
Why only sami fails?
1. Backups up everything, even excluded directories.
2. Shows that backup failed at the very end, even if everything seems to be backed up.
Man I can relate. I’m gonna give the system image a shot. I only run windows VMs so it would be nice to restore a configured VM
Excited to see your video on urbackup!
Thank you!! I finally got my 2nd Unraid Server up and running and first thing I did was come to you to find out how to backup my PC. Very easy to follow!
Great video, thank you for all the work you put into this channel.
Did the urbackup video ever get made? I can not find it. I'm trying to decide between urbackup and syncthing.
I'm still pretty new to this, my unraid server is still not in it's final place or final configuration but getting closer now.
As ever Ed great work. Clear, concise and upbeat. Looking forward to the next one!
Thanks, I'm just setting up an unraid server and your videos are helping a lot. Thanks big time.
As always superb content! Looking forward to the urbackup video :-) Also still very excited for the promised video on a backup unraid server, that'll overtake web services when the main server goes down!
Any update on the urbackup video? I'm looking for other options as I Windows' built in backup software failed me when I needed it.
Even when I don't think I need the video, I always end up learning new things. Thank you~!
Hi Ed,
Interesting video, always well presented. Would have I like to see the completion of the installing nextcloud series (only office elastic search with nextcloud and only office with nextcloud) and the Making an Auto Backup / Failover Server series
love your videos Ed!
Hope to see your urBackup video as a follow on to this one. Looks like a great backup app.
Thank you for this and I am very interested in the upcoming video on urbackup.
This was very informative. I may have to rethink my current backup strategy, and try this instead. Thank you for the great content.
I think he forgot about UrBackup ;(
I’m using urbackup but I have issues with it.
At 14:09 he is recommending urbackup.
Amazingly detailed and easy to follow as always. Thanks
I recently had a scare with a hard drive failing me for one day which I had not backed up in years. I had been putting off backing up my pc on my UnRaid so I ended up doing this after the scare.
Some things I didn't know when I did it. So this is very helpful. Thank you.
Very nice video, you are an expert in unraid systems, love from China.
You are really helpful, thanks to you everything is easier, even a novice like me can do difficult things. Thank you so much. you are a help to the community
This guide does not work great with Windows 11. I was able to find the old control panel version of these settings, but would you consider making these videos for Windows 11 as well?
Love it / Thanks !!
If i´m allowed to ask; Could you make a video tutorial like this for a Windows VM-Backup (in UnRaid) ?
Like how UnRaid automatically / scheduled stops the VM (if necessary) and make a full image backup which i can use Plug´n´Play to boot from in UnRaid if the VM got corrupted etc.
That would be awesome !!
Thanks for the video. Where can I find your video about binhex-urbackup?
Another awesome video just what I needed for my daughters Windows PC. I've been running UnRaid for almost 2 years thanks to your videos. I'm really looking forward to a video on the UnRaid setup and configuration of the metasearch-engine SearXNG.
Good video as always Ed! Thanks for always sharing with us!👍💖😎JP
Great timing! I love your videos!!!!
well Ed as you spoke my 6 tera byte just died thought I had file history on put i didn't and I didn't know how to backup on unraid but I will now thnks to you
I'm using Veeam Agent for Windows to make full/incremental backups of my windows machine to my unraid server. Imho the best backup solution...
Forget this and use Macrium instead. Even the free version if you have to but you can save a little more disk space with the home paid version. Macrium will do a bare metal backup of your boot disk whereas Windows BU won't. You can also mount any of your old images and browse them for historical file recovery.
I agree, I really like Macrium Reflect backup program. Just like the Windows backup, it requires you to make a "boot disk" (CD, USB stick, etc). But unlike Windows, you CAN store multiple "generations/versions" of backups. As Matt said, there is a free version, if I remember correctly the free one only does full image backups (and for many people that is perfectly fine). If you pay for the program, you can also do "incremental" or "differential" backups, which are faster to create. (I prefer "differential" backups because it ONLY requires the main backup image and then ONLY ONE of the differential images (usually the most recent). An "incremental" backup is even faster to create, but for a restore you need the main backup image and (usually) EVERY incremental file since then.) I have two unRAID systems - one only houses backups of all the household PCs. I do weekly backups, so it is only up one or two days a week. On other days it is totally shut down so I know nothing can get to it. (My other unRAID is a shared system that houses photos, videos, shared data files, etc so all household computers can get to these.) You can run the Macrium backups manually, or you can schedule them to run at set times. You can tell it how many versions to retain, you can set it up to e-mail you once a backup is done (or if it has problems). You can password protect your images if desired. A very nice program, been using it for YEARS. And, as Space Invader says, your system can crash at any time (new PCs, old PCs, etc) - and I HAVE had several occasions where I have used Macrium to restore a system that crashed - man what a life saver!.
BTW - having to make a "boot disk" (CD, USB stick, whatever) is a GOOD thing. This allows you to boot to the CD/USB/etc device's operating system and thus no files are locked on your C: drive. Thus allowing the restore to work MUCH better. You normally only use the boot disk when doing a restore, but I do suggest you test booting to it on occasion. Your regular backup process runs from your normal Window's boot - the boot disk is not involved on a day-to-day basis. Just file the boot disk away someplace safe and test it (and recreate it) occasionally.
When is the rsync tutorial coming out ? You mentioned that's what you use on your seedbox and I think that's quite interesting .
When trying to make a full image, it wouldn't accept my network access credentials (username and password - see 10:41) until I added the server name. So Username = TOWER\username if you're on the default Unraid sever name of TOWER. No idea why, but after that it all unfolded exactly as above.
Still waiting for urbackup 😂
I've tried this multiple times (even before your video) and for whatever reason it always fails with the error "Network location unavailable." (or something to that effect) right after it builds the system image. The other backup files exist on the share though. It's the same issue either with my Laptop or my Desktop.
@SpaceInvader One - Thanks for the latest tutorial. If you are struggling with content ideas, I think an episode on how to set up and configure Searx/Searxng would be good. installation is straightforward on Unraid, but making it publicly accessible and setting up HTTPS is harder said than done :)
A video on Joplin, a OneNote alternative, would also be nice :)
Its actually pretty easy if youre using NPM as your reverse proxy using origin certificates
When i click on "add a drive" it will only show my local HDD but it will not show the network drives. I don't even have the option for "show all network locations".
Any ideas what the issue is?
Great video as always. Thanks!
i can't find the option i think microsoft has removed it on win 11
Seems like later versions of Win 10 don't have the same controls. I only want to backup a single external drive and I don't have the option of selecting that drive or ignoring Windows libraries, etc.
Thanks for the video.
So I decided to try Urbackup and it worked great until the container was restarted (or server) and then it would not let me log in to the webgui, logs shows login failed error.
Asked about this on the unraid forum and the Urbackup forum, no answer so this wont work for me.
Perfectly accurate as usual. Mr Spaceinvader One, could you perhaps do a video for backing up android phones as well?
Could you please go over how to backup docker containers, and how to restore them to previous working order? TIA.
Newbie question: are the samba shares for Windows and TimeMachine backups formatted to ntfs / hfs or does Unraid use some sort of universal format like exfat (I saw xfs) ... does this change with zfs - can zfs pools have filesystems within it''s filesystem?? sorry bit confused but eager to try proxmox/unraid with zfs..
Okay, but what about when you aren't on the same network?
You're the best!
I did an system restore before like 3 months ago but that won't help my died drive now or my info
7:55 question, will it do a full drive backup?! Say I want it to back up "m" drive entirely (data drive), could I set it or do I have to select folder(s) within a drive? Now to figure this out for win 7...
This works until your PC back is larger than you biggest disk (10tb) then the windows backup constantly fails. I’m using Backblaze at the moment for offsite, but I’ll probably need to get a larger unraid disk to support this or maybe I have something misconfigured?
a linux one would be good as well also what about the people who refuse to leave windows 7 because they hate windows 10/11
When you created the share, don't you need to choose minimum disk spaces? Depending on your Windows setup, that recovery image could be terabyte in size of full.
I’ve tried this, and I’m backing up from an nvme m.2 SSD to my cache drive (which is a raid0 with 2 nvme m.2 drives) with share set to “yes”. It is ABBYSMALLY slow, a 200 gb full backup, i started running this around 6pm, its no 4am, and we’re on 50%. My network is 1 GBS. I don’t get why this is so slow.
I would love to see if iPhone or iPad backup s could be done on unraid
Would it be fair to say that if i only wanted to back up the files (not so much the history but i guess it wouldnt hurt) then i should just go the file history route? i dont have a need to recover the entire image, just the files.
Hi Ed, i'm looking for the urbackup setup for a remote backup (office windows PC to home unraid server) via swag! Can you do it? Please!
Do spaceinvader1 daily drive a Linux desktop/laptop? What is your favorite distro? I would love to see a video on setting up a Linux VM for gaming and integrating the unraid shares with it.
Thanks! Howver, Isnt this solution very sbjective to virusses/ransomware with write access to the shares? If it infects the backed up files, you are redtoring infected files and/or fail to do so as they will have been encrypted in the meanwhile..
you always put out very informative videos!
I tried the windows backup but as always MS Windows wouldn't let me connect to the network to restore the settings even through the ethernet. So I'm going the UrBackup route, windows backups always give me a headache, as opposed to macOS Time Machine.
Isn’t Windows backup dead? In the sence that Microsoft has removed it from newer Windows 10 versions?
Ive tried this before this video released and it failed so i tried following this video and it still failed i dont rate windows backup at all i just use software too back up every now and again
still no urbackup video :(
Is there a backup app you do recommend? Would you be able to make a video on that backup app in UnRAID?
Just use Acronis and treat an Unraid share as your 'backups' target. Backing up Unraid? Whole other thing. Not had much luck, Rclone seems to miss files.
NICE!!!!
Veeam Community Edition is the best way for backup of a windows device. It allows full system recovery.
Thanks I will check that out. Also have you seen the opensource Urbackup. That is great too i think :)
@@SpaceinvaderOne I’ll give it a look as well. The ability to do individual file and folder restores as well as the system image for free is one of my favorite things to do in a home server.
Any chances of encrypting the backup? Given the data is written to the unraid hard drive, if it got stolen would mean full access to the original PC data?
Not sure about windows but you can encrypt your unraid drives.
What about security of the files?
such a shame in wondows 11 you dont have the ability to specify which folders you wish to add to backup, it just blankets all libraries and you have the option to exclude
What happened to UrBackup?😢😢
Not applicable in Windows 11.
Can confirm that it dosen’t work on Windows 11 and produce failures. Any other backupsoftware works quite well
@@christianscandi I'll look up what error code I got and post it in here. The backup went through the first time, but kept producing errors on completion on subsequent ones.
@@christianscandi Windows 11 requires an MS online account now and you basically have to hack it to get a local account. Backups are done through the online MS account. I have already used it 2 times to restore a PC that have been testing hardware on. So options to do backups aren't even there to be searched. Mind you I am on 2H22 22621.105 not the plebe version.
Very unfortunate that Windows 11 really messed up file history and you can no longer include folders, only exclude.
There is a workaround. You can make a custom library and then add your folders to that
Please please please do the video on URBackup!!!! !
New video 🎂
this does not work with windows 11.
We❤Ed
use Veeam community license to unraid share...done
Guessing you never did get around to UrBackup haha
ua-cam.com/video/5bwrd7dHjqs/v-deo.html Awesome videos love your work! I do have a question about the security setting. You say "I am going to leave it public for the moment." Do you ever change it off of public to private? I can't change mine off of public to private and I cant seem to find a part in the video where you do change it off of that setting.
This can and will fail/stop working and you'll chase your tail trying to fix it. Oh and when you need it, you'll just get a general error..lol
its very funny, because shares on unraid cant see android phone and windows pc))))))
and all this unraid just some prealfa-beta-gamma soft FOR MONEY)