VM Backup & Restore

VM Backup & Restore

Plugin from jcofer555

Overview

A utility to backup a VM's vdisk, nvram, and xml and restore when needed. Development has ended and no further updates will be released

VM Backup & Restore

A utility to backup a VM's vdisk, nvram, and xml and restore when needed. Development has ended and no further updates will be released

Features

  • Backing up of a single VM or multiple VMs
  • Restoring of a single VM or multiple VMs
  • Offers scheduling of backups
  • Ability to set how many backups you want to keep
  • Dry run support
  • Notification support for discord, gotify, ntfy, pushover, slack, and unraids built in
  • Ability to set an owner for your backups
  • Logging available in the webui and at /tmp/vm-backup-and-restore
  • NOTE: When running a backup or restore, selected VMs are stopped and then restarted only if they were running beforehand
image

Install VM Backup & Restore on Unraid in a few clicks.

Find VM Backup & Restore in Community Apps on your Unraid server, review the template, and click Install. Unraid handles the Docker app or plugin setup from the published template.

Open the Apps tab on your Unraid server Search Community Apps for VM Backup & Restore Review the template variables and paths Click Install

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Repository
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/jcofer555/vm-backup-and-restore/main/plugin/vm-backup-and-restore.plg
Last Updated2026-07-17
First Seen2026-02-23