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      McHenry @Pilow
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      @Pilow

      Currently set to 15 on one schedule and 1 on the other schedule
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        Pilow @McHenry
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        @McHenry could you screenshot the SNAPSHOTS tab of a problematic VM ?

        the new backup & CR code changed the way it is handled as you understood... no more "one VM per replica point", but "one VM with a snapshot per replica point"

        you should see 16 snapshots on the VM ?

        EDIT : my bad, its the first screenshot you provided... indeed 16 snapshots

        I do not remember the snapshots limit per VM (50?) , but you seem to bee far from it

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          Pilow @Pilow
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          the limit enforced by XOA is 30

          https://docs.xen-orchestra.com/backup_troubleshooting?utm_source=chatgpt.com#vdi-chain-protection

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            McHenry @Pilow
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            @Pilow

            Thank you. I did not know this change had been made.

            So now I have the master VM with a snapshot for each backup schedule.
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            And a CR created VM with 16 snapshots.
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            I wonder why the health check shows too many snapshots as I am well under 30 per VM
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              Pilow @McHenry
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              @McHenry could be another cap limit on the SR
              can you screenshot homepage GENERAL tab of HST150 SR ?

              how many VDIs present ?
              what type of SR is it ?

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                jr-m4
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                Throwing my two cents into the hat, as well.

                I had a similar situation. Snapshots would't be rotated out of retention, regardless of what I set on the retention setting (on a subset of VMs ie not all of the).. The thing that solved it for my, was to recreate the affected schedule.
                Do note that this will mark the previous backups taken by that technically deleted schedule, as being abandoned/orphaned.

                But after I did this, snapshots would be properly rotated as expected.

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                  McHenry @Pilow
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                  @Pilow

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                  SR is local storage
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                    McHenry @jr-m4
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                    @jr-m4

                    Recreated, testing now.

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                      McHenry @Pilow
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                      @Pilow
                      Was there an announcement about the change in how these CR backups are done with snapshots now?

                      I'd love to read up on it.

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                        Pilow @McHenry
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                        @McHenry screenshot the GENERAL tab of "Disaster Recovery" SR please
                        just to see how many VDIs it hosts... at least 288

                        it was announced here
                        https://xen-orchestra.com/blog/xen-orchestra-6-3/#💾-backup
                        but it is not explaing in details, I gathered information in another topix in this forum from @florent

                        you also have the Changelog of 6.3.0
                        https://github.com/vatesfr/xen-orchestra/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md#630-2026-03-31

                        points to PR9524
                        [Replication] Reuse the same VM as an incremental replication target (PR #9524)

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