Both my server and client run on Fedora 40 and I wanted to pull my first full image but got this message
I should also say that when I installed the client there was a question of the snapshot mechanism. Since I didn’t have the answer I selected an option with the hope to come back to it.
So first question is how do I check/change the backup policy for the server and b) change it if it needs to be changed?
I have made some progress and managed to install dattobd with the help of that project. I then set the snapshot mechanism to dattobd (option 1)
root@dell-kvmhost:/usr/local/etc/urbackup# TF=`mktemp` && wget "http://192.168.2.101:55414/x?a=download_client&lang=en&clientid=4&authkey=3t6VFlUSp4&os=linux" -O $TF && sudo sh $TF; rm -f $TF
/tmp/tmp.o2mi2OsEOT 100% [=====================================================================>] 24.96M 111.43MB/s
[Files: 1 Bytes: 24.96M [22.28MB/s] Redirects: 0 Todo: 0 Errors: 0 ]
Verifying archive integrity... All good.
Uncompressing UrBackup Client Installer for Linux 100%
Installation of UrBackup Client 2.5.25 to /usr/local ... Proceed ? [Y/n]
y
Uncompressing install data...
Assuming RedHat \(derivative\) system
Detected systemd
Detected architecture x86_64-linux-glibc
Installing systemd unit...
Restarting UrBackup Client service...
Successfully started client service. Installation complete.
+Detected Fedora. Dattobd supported
+Detected btrfs filesystem
-Detected no LVM volumes
+dmsetup present
Please select the snapshot mechanism to be used for backups:
1) dattobd volume snapshot kernel module from https://github.com/datto/dattobd (supports image backups and changed block tracking)
3) btrfs filesystem snapshots (dattobd and LVM will automatically use btrfs snapshots for btrfs filesystems)
4) Linux device mapper based snapshots (supports image backups and changed block tracking)
5) Use no snapshot mechanism. Files will be backed up without creating snapshots of them. Images backups will be not supported.
Enter choice (number 1-5, then enter): 1
Configured dattobd. Please install dattobd following the instructions at https://github.com/datto/dattobd
Configured snapshot mechanism via /usr/local/etc/urbackup/snapshot.cfg
root@dell-kvmhost:/usr/local/etc/urbackup#
The backup status looks like this
Looking at the live log of the server I see the following. What backup dirs is this referring to?
I have queued a ‘full image backup’ which is the only thing I’m interested at this stage. Looking at the server settings I have a backup storage path set; nothing for file backups. So why do I have these messages in the log and what do I need to do to resolve this for image backups?
I just setup file backup which seemed to work but noticed a statement “not supported” for image backup. Does this mean I cant do image backups on Fedora at all or does it mean it’s just not supported via dattobd? That would be an issue as the main (only) reason for backup is to create image backups not file backups.
