[Quick Question] External disks in VM backup

crazywolf13

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Oct 15, 2023
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Hi

I just installed PBS and I really love it, however currently due to my raid config on my ZFS datastore I only have roughly 4TB space for backups (Just using about 200GB) No I have one VM that servers as my NAS where I passed through a full disk (4TB SSD (Roughly 400GB used)), now I'd like to backup my NAS too to the PBS Server, can I just leave the setting for backing up that disk on an PVE will send just those roughly 400GB of used space to the PBS or will it back up those full 3.7TB and send them over?

The Nas runs on an Openmediavault VM, has 4TB where roughly 400GB are used and runs btrfs.

Thanks for your help!
 

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