Application-consistent backups will fall back to filesystem system backups as before as there is no API for informing Linux applications to complete operations for a backup. VSS has used filesystem freeze operations for years to do backups on Linux.
Hyper-V integration services is integrated into the Ubuntu kernel through our collaboration with Canonical, and is quite up to date in Xenial.
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Application- consistent backups will fall back to filesystem system backups as before as there is no API for informing Linux applications to complete operations for a backup. VSS has used filesystem freeze operations for years to do backups on Linux.
Hyper-V integration services is integrated into the Ubuntu kernel through our collaboration with Canonical, and is quite up to date in Xenial.