When you install the client on the Ubuntu machine you are asked which snapshot mechanism you want to use. If dattoobd is not installed on your system and/or not chosen as snapshot mechanism you wont be able to do image backups.
See also:
New settings handling
The major change with server 2.5.x and client 2.5.x is a complete redesign how settings are handled. The goal is to make it more explicit and consistent.
Each setting has a button next to it which switches between inheriting the setting from the group, using the configuration value on the configuration page and using the value from the client, and for some setting merging client and server settings together
File backup paths are now a normal setting just like any other. N…
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Hi uroni,
Understood; just tested it and it worked fine!
Just a question; in Microsoft Windows machines, UrBackup doesn’t need this snapshot mechanism (so, there is no need to change), because the native system/VSS, correct?
Thank you very much.