Heterogenous Hosts Backups?

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I am trying to wrap my head around backups of urbackup… Server is up and running and it works on files. But please consider my PC:

Device              Start        End    Sectors  Size Type
/dev/nvme0n1p1       2048     206847     204800  100M EFI System
/dev/nvme0n1p2     206848     239615      32768   16M Microsoft reserved
/dev/nvme0n1p3     239616 2677169269 2676929654  1.2T Microsoft basic data
/dev/nvme0n1p4 2677170176 2678226943    1056768  516M Windows recovery environment
/dev/nvme0n1p5 2678226944 2680180735    1953792  954M Linux filesystem
/dev/nvme0n1p6 2680180736 3907028991 1226848256  585G Linux LVM

Errors:

2023-11-06 11:37:12: ERROR: Creating snapshot of "/dev/nvme0n1p5" failed
2023-11-06 11:37:12: ERROR: Snapshotting device /dev/nvme0n1p5 via dm...
2023-11-06 11:37:12: ERROR: /dev/nvme0n1p5 is not a device mapper device. Cannot snapshot via dm.
2023-11-06 11:37:12: ERROR: Creating shadowcopy of "/dev/nvme0n1p5" failed.
2023-11-06 11:37:12: ERROR: Creating shadow copy failed. See client log file for details.

/dev/nvme0n1p5 is of course not a snapshot target: It’s a native file system containing /boot. It also completly ignored Windows. Since it failed with my /boot filesystem it does not even consider other partitions.

My goal: I want a full image based backup of my NVMe drive. In a disaster case I want to be able to restore my PC to that backup state.

Cheers!
-Chris.

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Are you running Windows or Linux? Those partitions that say “Linux” are they EXT format? (Windows does not support EXT format natively, this might be why Shadow copy is failing).

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I am doing a dual boot, So Windows and Debian 12.
Debian 12 is nested inside a LVM for snapshots (image backups).

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For now exclude the Linux volumes OR only backup volumes Windows can see correctly to confirm that backup works for the Windows volumes.

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Yeah but II rather want to backup Linux. Windows is just for gaming. If it burns, meh :slight_smile:

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Your in a test phase before working out the end result, the above is to confirm it works.