Linux Image backup Process

New here and thinking of using this software.

I do have a question regarding the Linux Image backup process. As I understand UrBackup used dattobd to backup Linux images that are ext4.
Looking through GitHub - datto/dattobd: kernel module for taking block-level snapshots and incremental backups of Linux block devices, it has issues with Linux Kernel 5.10 onwards. Memory leakage.
It seems it has been discussed in topic #11465 and #10798

Both reference newer and more up to date driver https://github.com/elastio/elastio-snap
What is the correct way to adapt the newer driver? And is UrBackup thinking of adding that driver by default as it supports Kernel 6.0?

Is /usr/local/etc/urbackup/snapshot.cfg the only place that needs to be configured?

If the format isn’t changed just modify dattobd_create_snapshot and dattobd_remove_snapshot referenced by snapshot.cfg.

Patches would be very welcome urbackup_backend/linux_snapshot at dev · uroni/urbackup_backend · GitHub

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