Image backups are NOT SUPPORTED

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Hey guys!
This is probably a silly question but anyway.
I really appreciate the ability of a new urbackup beta-server to watch VHD images on windows machines. It’s very cool and handy! But, there are several Linux-machines in the company and it would be great to have some VHD images of them. But it is “not supported”…
During the installation of a “client 2.1.6 beta” I’ve chosen an “LVM-snapshots” and my Ubuntu server 16.04 is running on lvm.
But, the option is NOT supported.
Please, give me a piece of advice.

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Are you sure that’s one of the available options?

Looking through both the documentation and sources, I see no mention of LVM at all (although this is apparently planned for the future).

snapshot_helper/main.cpp defines only two possible modes, btrfs or zfs.

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The binary Linux client has snapshot scripts for LVM2, dattobd and btrfs. You might want to add them to your Gentoo build as well (e.g. the Arch client has them as well: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/urbackup2-client-no-gui/ )

Those scripts are only for file backups and it says nowhere that it supports image backups on Linux or macOS.

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Ah, that’s why I missed them. I’ve never actually looked at the binary distribution.

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2016-12-19 20:35:20: Final path: /home
2016-12-19 20:35:20: Final path: /etc
2016-12-19 20:35:20: Final path: /root
2016-12-19 20:35:20: Final path: /usr/local
2016-12-19 20:35:20: Creating shadowcopy of "home" in indexDirs()
2016-12-19 20:35:21: Snapshotting device /dev/sda3 via dattobd...
2016-12-19 20:35:21: Using /dev/datto0...

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