Using Sdelete worked perfect. Thanks for your help.
Christian Sent from my iPhone On 10 Sep 2012, at 02:36 PM, Paul Gray <[email protected]> wrote: > On 9/10/2012 7:34 AM, Christian Cartwright wrote: >> Hi everyone, >> >> In one perticular VM I have running server 2008 r2 the os reports that >> the drive is using 40gb(approx) but when I do a backup in proxmox the >> image file it creates is 70gb. >> > How big is the size of the disk image? (Not just in-use component.) > >> Why is this? I'm guessing it's because of deleted files in the os maybe? > > I'd recommend using SDelete by Mark Russinovich (Sysinternals) to zero out > all unused data on the disk. This should significantly reduce the size of > the backup. Use the "-z" option. > > If others are curious - on Linux, use "zerofree". > > -PG > > _______________________________________________ > pve-user mailing list > [email protected] > http://pve.proxmox.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pve-user _______________________________________________ pve-user mailing list [email protected] http://pve.proxmox.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pve-user
