Multiple base copies taking up storage space
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As I try to manage the storage used by VMs and backups I see most of the disk space is take up with "base copies".
I expect these are full copies of the VM however I am not sure why I have multiple and if these can be deleted?
For example, on the production host I have the following:
A 131GB disk with a single 520kb snapshot. I am unsure what the 2.7GB VDI represents.
By comparison, on the DR host I have the following and I do not understand why:
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@McHenry Base copies are not copy per say but a base of a VDI chain.
Here you can see that A and B are base copies for the snapshots C and E while D is the active VDI.
You can find more info on this page: https://docs.xcp-ng.org/storage/#-coalesce
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