Hello!
I am backing up a file server vm on a very old node(Celeron J1900).
The VM has a 3TB virtual hard disk. I move what data I could off from this vm, making the virtual disk almost empty.
Still, the backup takes a loooong time it seems, and sparse is 1-2%.
Should I install secure -delete and do an
sudo sfill -lvz
to overwrite the free space I made on the hard drive with zero-s so that sparse would go up, and backup finishes faster?
Is doing "sudo sfill -lvz" a recommended practice before backups, if the vm has lots of free space?
I am backing up a file server vm on a very old node(Celeron J1900).
The VM has a 3TB virtual hard disk. I move what data I could off from this vm, making the virtual disk almost empty.
Still, the backup takes a loooong time it seems, and sparse is 1-2%.
Should I install secure -delete and do an
sudo sfill -lvz
to overwrite the free space I made on the hard drive with zero-s so that sparse would go up, and backup finishes faster?
Is doing "sudo sfill -lvz" a recommended practice before backups, if the vm has lots of free space?
