Hi all,
I have a VM I backup regurlarly; this VM has a disk of 700GB.
But real disk usage is only about 50GB.
So far, backup sizes were very reasonable (about 20-30GB) but it jumped to 150GB for last backup.
I guess it's because I had to temporarily copied a big file(120GB) to this 700GB disk and then I removed it prior to backup.
However, this "file" is still in the backup.
Is there a way to clean-up a disk before making a backup (such as zero non referenced space)?
Or is there any smart solution to avoid backing-up non longer relavant data?
Thanks,
Jean
I have a VM I backup regurlarly; this VM has a disk of 700GB.
But real disk usage is only about 50GB.
So far, backup sizes were very reasonable (about 20-30GB) but it jumped to 150GB for last backup.
I guess it's because I had to temporarily copied a big file(120GB) to this 700GB disk and then I removed it prior to backup.
However, this "file" is still in the backup.
Is there a way to clean-up a disk before making a backup (such as zero non referenced space)?
Or is there any smart solution to avoid backing-up non longer relavant data?
Thanks,
Jean
