Backup external hard drive containing a VeraCrypt container

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Hi,

I have an (NTFS formatted) external hard drive which I use when I am on the go and would like to make backups of it. Unfortunately I came across the problem that Urbackup does not support backing up volumes that contain TrueCrypt/VeraCrypt containers due to Windows API problems with the encryption software.

Is there a way to exclude the VeraCrypt container from the external drive and to have the rest of the files backed up?
I tried adding it as an exclusion with the full path to the container file but I still receive the same error:

backupcom->AddToSnapshotSet(&(Server->ConvertToWchar(selected_vols[i])[0]), GUID_NULL, &additional_refs[i].volid) failed. VSS error code VSS_E_VOLUME_NOT_SUPPORTED

Is there a way around this? I would like to have the container be fully copied to the backup server through other means (rsync, scp, et cetera) and the remaining files to be backed up by Urbackup.

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Is this a file backup or image backup?

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The USB drive was configured as a file backup but I used the path to the USB drive itself (G:) where all files including the VeraCrypt container resides. As mentioned above, I tried excluding the VeraCrypt container from file backups.