First backup of PVE VM

[m3a2r1]

I did first backup of one vm from pve. On PBS used space increased only 3GB, in backup log I see "INFO: backup was done incrementally, reused 36.68 GiB (36%)".
Does it mean that wasn't full backup? How to make incremental backup when we haven't got any full backup?

 

[dcsapak]

no it just meant that there were already chunks within this one backup that could be duplicated (e.g. continuous blocks of zeroes)

 

[m3a2r1]

And it's full functional backup and I can restore it as new vm?

 

[dcsapak]

yes

 

[m3a2r1]

Perfect. Thanks.