Have a QNAP. So moved the pagefile’s to an ISCIS target. And then removed all the Delta’s
Freed up 268gb which has allowed the Veeam backups to run Daniel Sent from my iPhone > On 20 Nov 2017, at 8:09 am, Burt Mascareigne <[email protected]> wrote: > > I feel like you dodged a bullet there. > > If you were not able to shut it down, then get a NAS or some device and clone > to it at least that will give you a slimmed down clean version. > > > > Regards, > > > Burt Mascareigne > Mobile 0414 450 962 Office (02) 9965 5422 > Address Level 19, 1 O’Connell Street, Sydney NSW 2000 > Web http://www.stormnetwork.com.au > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: AusNOG [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Daniel > Watson > Sent: Sunday, 19 November 2017 10:23 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [AusNOG] VMWare Snapshot / Delta VMDK removal > > Thanks to all those fantastic people who have responded > > I have powered off this particular VM for the time being. And have recovered > 35gb in swapfile > > I have taken a new successful snapshot. Which then allowed me to delete “all” > snapshots. Including those old delta files. This will take a few hours to > complete. But then should give me back 100gb of space > > Appreciate all the assistance. I’ll keep you posted how it goes tomorrow > > Daniel > > Sent from my iPhone > >> On 19 Nov 2017, at 9:47 pm, Daniel Watson <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Sorry to bother the list but this is critical >> >> Wanted to know from others. If it is safe to remove a delta VMDK file from a >> running vm? >> >> A server I am now looking after is running out of space like no tomorrow. >> And there are 3 delta VMDK ‘s taking up 80gb of space >> >> Any information would be appreciated >> >> Daniel >> >> Sent from my iPhone >> _______________________________________________ >> AusNOG mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.ausnog.net/mailman/listinfo/ausnog > _______________________________________________ > AusNOG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.ausnog.net/mailman/listinfo/ausnog _______________________________________________ AusNOG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ausnog.net/mailman/listinfo/ausnog
