backup needs much more space than the LXC itself

fruchtzwerg

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I have a lxc container in pve. The webgui shows me an amount of storage of 12.69 GB.
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The backup in PBS needs more than 20GB.
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I cannot afford this amount of storage and would like to shrink the storage of the backup.
But how?
 
Can you check if it gets smaller if you call pct fstrim CTIDHERE first? Maybe some files change very often or there's some sparse files or something.
 
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