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Backing up veracrypt encrypted drives
I am currently trying to backup a drive that has been encrypted with veracrypt. The main "system" drive acronis has no problem doing a full backup, it appears to detect the unencrypted C drive properly and everything is fine. I also have two other encrypted drives (encrypted with the same password) that it is unable to detect. It can detect the physical drive and read the encrypted volume but completely ignores the mounted, unencrypted volume. I can backup by flat files but I don't want to do that.
Just to be clear, I am a Linux dev and not really a windows user. I don't know the tricks (if any) to fool windows into treating the mounted volumes as hardware (or whatever it's doing). Did a bunch of reading and only found people in the same situation.
The only horrifically hacky solution I could think of would be to throw another layer of abstraction in there and use vmware/qemu with the unencrypted drives and that might let me read them. Surely there is something better.
ps. also tested with macrium for good measure, same results.