Windows VMs backup considerably larger

athompson3117

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I notice when I do my daily backups of the Windows VMs, they are considerably larger than my Linux guest VMs. for example, a Linux guest with a 30GB drive will result in 1GB of data backed up. However, a Windows 2019 guest with a 70 GB drive will backup 13GB in the same time. Neither of these guests are particularly active. Is this just because Windows is a busier OS? If so is there a way to reduce that?