Question About Prune Datastore

[Dexter23]

Hi all
I have a question, when i click on this icon here:

Is the equivalent of prune all the snapshot of the vm?
Thanks

 

[Hannes Laimer]

Hey,

no, this will delete all snapshots. Prune deletes some, according to the configuration.

 

[Dexter23]

Hey,

no, this will delete all snapshots. Prune deletes some, according to the configuration.

Ok so it remove the snapshot and recover some freespace from datastore right?

 

[Hannes Laimer]

GC[1] will do that, and how much that is depends on how much of the data is reused in other snapshots.

[1] https://pbs.proxmox.com/docs/backup-client.html#garbage-collection

 

[Dexter23]

Ok thank you.