Backup larger than VM size

Miro_I

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Hello,
Since the upgrade to Proxmox VE 6.4-14 i have an issue with some snapshot backups.

In VM # df -h shows 182G and backup is 301GB.
The VM has Discard enabled on the hard disk and fstrim -av inside VM was executed before backup.
Why it is creating larger backups than actual vm content size?
 

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