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  • 1.  VDR - How can I clear up the on disk space?

    Posted Jan 13, 2012 12:57 PM

    One some of the backup destinations, there is space being used that isnt required. I deleted some backups that were no longer needed. VDR can use the space, but the space is still taken up on disc. So VDR might be saying that the destination is using 400GB. But if I do a du -hs on the virtual machine, it says 879GB.

    This creates a problem as currently I copy these backups to external drives to go offsite, and space is becoming a problem. Is there a way I can clear up this extra space?



  • 2.  RE: VDR - How can I clear up the on disk space?

    Posted Jan 15, 2012 09:44 AM

    try run the 'reclaim' task



  • 3.  RE: VDR - How can I clear up the on disk space?

    Posted Jan 15, 2012 03:43 PM

    That just allows the space to be overwritten with new backups. But there are still bits written to the disk.