A Text based UI to dump live (running) system disk to image file with Volume Shadow Service (VSS or COW) in Linux. need dattobd dkms module support.

• CoW DKMS Module dattobd
• Linux Kernel >=4.9 or >5.0 recommend
• Parallel GZip program pigz
• Base packages dialog, pv, dd

• Volume Shadow Copy (CoW)
• Umount Device Support
• English Version
• Compression Algorithm Optimization
• Graphical User Interface (?)

1. Please install those packages before use.

   sudo apt install -y dialog pv pigz

2. And then install dattabd module.
   For Debian and Ubuntu

   sudo apt-key adv --fetch-keys https://cpkg.datto.com/DATTO-PKGS-GPG-KEY
   echo "deb [arch=amd64] https://cpkg.datto.com/datto-deb/public/$(lsb_release -sc) $(lsb_release -sc) main" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/datto-linux-agent.list
   sudo apt-get update
   sudo apt-get install dattobd-dkms dattobd-utils
   

   For Deepin v20 and UOS v20

   sudo apt-key adv --fetch-keys https://cpkg.datto.com/DATTO-PKGS-GPG-KEY
   echo "deb [arch=amd64] https://cpkg.datto.com/datto-deb/public/buster buster main" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/datto-linux-agent.list
   sudo apt-get update
   sudo apt-get install dattobd-dkms dattobd-utils
   

3. Reboot your PC or Server.

chmod +x madbu.sh
sudo ./madbu.sh

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