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I´m a new user to xsibackup-dc. Bought a license but am not able to create backups.

NFS share connected to ESXI host.

./xsibackup --backup "VMs(CheckMK)" /vmfs/volumes/Backup/Office/

is producing the following output:

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|||   (c)XSIBackup-DC 1.1.1.2: Backup & Replication Software                    |||
|||   (c)33HOPS, Sistemas de Informacion y Redes, S.L. | All Rights Reserved    |||
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                   (c)Daniel J. Garcia Fidalgo | info@33hops.com
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System Information: ESXi, Kernel 7 Major 0 Minor 0 Patch 0
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License: XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
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PID: 564555, Running job as: root
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LZJB compression has been enabled
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Block size is 1048576 bytes (1024.00 KB)
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(c)XSIBackup-DC setting repository at /vmfs/volumes/Backup/Office/
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Virtual Machine Name: CheckMK
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Creating snapshot VM : CheckMK (powered on)
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*** Snapshot was successfully created ***
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New backup/replica: CheckMK | folder
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Backup start date: 2020-05-25 11:11:58
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2020-05-25 11:11:58 | Backing up 20 files, total size is 18424800643
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    NUMBER                                                         FILE            SIZE       PROGRESS
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     1/20                                                 CheckMK.nvram         8.48 KB | Done   0.00%
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     2/20                                                  CheckMK.vmsd       437.00 B  | Done   0.00%
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     3/20                                                   CheckMK.vmx         3.29 KB | Done   0.00%
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     4/20                                                  vmware-1.log       280.93 KB | Done   0.00%
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     5/20                                                  CheckMK.vmdk       501.00 B  | Done   0.00%
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     6/20                                          CheckMK-flat.vmdk    [open excluded] | Done   0.00%
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     7/20        vmx-CheckMK-be5113c9eba92ae58131dd84f3478ddccd74e22    [open excluded] | Done   0.00%
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     8/20                                            CheckMK.vmx.lck    [open excluded] | Done   0.00%
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     9/20                                                  CheckMK.vmx~         3.29 KB | Done   0.00%
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    10/20                                                  vmware-2.log       251.40 KB | Done   0.00%
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    11/20                                                  vmware-3.log       267.85 KB | Done   0.00%
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    12/20                                                  vmware-4.log       224.56 KB | Done   0.00%
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    13/20                                                    vmware.log       189.11 KB | Done   0.01%
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    14/20                                      CheckMK-9133a1c1.vswp    [open excluded] | Done   0.01%
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    15/20                                              CheckMK.vmsd.tmp        43.00 B  | Done   0.01%
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    16/20                                               CheckMK.vmx.tmp         3.29 KB | Done   0.01%
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    17/20                                               CheckMK-aux.xml        13.00 B  | Done   0.01%
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    18/20                                        CheckMK-Snapshot3.vmsn        19.92 KB | Done   0.01%
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    19/20                                  CheckMK-000001-sesparse.vmdk    [skipped excluded]
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    20/20                                           CheckMK-000001.vmdk    [skipped excluded]
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Total size:                 1 MB                                                        | Done 100.00%
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*** Snapshot was removed ***
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Backup end date: 2020-05-25 11:11:58
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Time taken:        0 sec.
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Total time:        0 sec.
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Full file speed:                                                                              inf mb/s
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Real data speed:                                                                             0.19 mb/s
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Item backup completed
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Differential blocks were added to the .blocklog database
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Data processing completed successfully
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Removed <tmp> dir        OK
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Unlocked backup          OK
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Removed PID              OK
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As you can see it´s skipping the data files. This backup is worthless without data files. What does "open excluded" and "skipped excluded" mean?

I thought I would be able to create backups from machines while they are running.

What am I doing wrong?

Best regards

Edit:

just read in another thread that ESXI 7.0 is not supported, yet. Any roadmap for this? Is it possible to test a pre-release version?

All my hosts run ESXI 7.0 so my xsibackup-dc license is quite useless at the moment.