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oracle vm virtual disk .img file increases when copied to NAS

dave carvalhoSep 24 2015 — edited Oct 20 2015

Hello.

I'm very new to Oracle VM and I'm using the Oracle VM manager to create clone machines of my servers as a backup. It's not a shared pool because I only have one server, so I'm also running a rsync script in order to backup up all VM Manager and Server files into a NAS. I've noticed that when copying Virtual Disk .img files to the destination, these grow into the full sized disks that were allocated for the respective VM machine.

Is there a way that I can haveĀ  a filesystem backup of this type without the full size of the disk in the .img file.

Thanks and regards.

Dave

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