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    Ideas to reduce delta-backup-size - especially for Windows VMs

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    • K Offline
      KPS Top contributor
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      Hi!

      The delta-backups of my windows VMs are quite large, although, there should not be much "change" on the system disk.

      What I already did:

      • Additional disk with "[NOBAK]" with profiles and pagefile

      --> As XOA does not have an option to exclude pagefile, I did move it to another drive

      --> In therory, there should be nearly "no" writes to the system disk and so a very small change rate

      But: I am still seeing about 10-20 GB daily per VM.

      Are you aware of any other "tricks" to reduce the size?

      Best wishes
      KPS

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      • ajpri1998A Offline
        ajpri1998
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        I've noticed Windows is a very disk-intensive OS. One tool that helps me look at where these writes are happening is SysInternals Process Monitor. It can show File System usage in real-time.

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        • tjkreidlT Offline
          tjkreidl Ambassador @KPS
          last edited by tjkreidl

          @KPS Perhaps consider AppV. MSIX. or some third party application sharing option for a chunk of the applications, which would reduce the size of the VM images? Also, perhaps the log verbosity could be reduced?

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