fails if a physical drive is attached to VM

[michaelHH1]

Hi,
I've a physical drive attached to my VM. The script fails with "'error: unsupported configuration: source for disk 'vde' is not a regular file; refusing to generate external snapshot name'". Could attached physical drives be excluded from the backup?

BR
Michael

[AJRepo]

Possibly. What do you get with the command

virsh domblklist XXXX --details

where XXXX is the VM domain name or id ?

[michaelHH1]

Type Device Target Source

file disk vda /media/backup/vm/homeserver/bimg-20180630-101135
block disk vde /dev/disk/by-uuid/B8D0061FD005E48A

As intermediate solution I've modified the script to:
command_output=$($VIRSH -q snapshot-create-as "$domain_name"
"$SNAPSHOT_PREFIX-$timestamp" --no-metadata --disk-only --diskspec vde,snapshot=no --atomic \

which is for sure to static as final solution