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