confused about snapshot cleanup
Posted: 4. Nov 2013, 21:18
I have been making snapshots of images for various things and just recently decided I no longer need the old snapshots. I went into virtualbox manager and for the image clicked on the snapshot optiona and found I had several listed. I really only want to save the very latest one so I decided to delete/merge the previous snapshots.
So before doing anything I had a snapshot struture like this:
- name 1
--- name 2
----- name 3
------- current state
I wanted to get rid of name1 and name2 snapshots which I did by choosing delete and then it says it will merge the data. So far so good as I now see what I wanted in vbox manager.
However, what I expected to happen on the disk was that it would clean up the Snapshots directory. When looking in that directory I see the following files:
{f28e9cda-2ded-4680-b270-47c2ac9cfbf6}.vdi - modified today
2012-09-07T13-56-23-233560000Z.sav - modified Sept 7, 2012
2013-04-12T12-35-43-874030000Z.sav - modified Apr 12, 2013
2013-09-18T13-57-54-245086000Z.sav - modified Sep 18, 2013
2013-11-04T19-06-42-732788000Z.sav - modified today
Given that 3 of the 4 sav files are old are these still needed? Could they be deleted to save disk space or are they still used even though the date is not updated?
So before doing anything I had a snapshot struture like this:
- name 1
--- name 2
----- name 3
------- current state
I wanted to get rid of name1 and name2 snapshots which I did by choosing delete and then it says it will merge the data. So far so good as I now see what I wanted in vbox manager.
However, what I expected to happen on the disk was that it would clean up the Snapshots directory. When looking in that directory I see the following files:
{f28e9cda-2ded-4680-b270-47c2ac9cfbf6}.vdi - modified today
2012-09-07T13-56-23-233560000Z.sav - modified Sept 7, 2012
2013-04-12T12-35-43-874030000Z.sav - modified Apr 12, 2013
2013-09-18T13-57-54-245086000Z.sav - modified Sep 18, 2013
2013-11-04T19-06-42-732788000Z.sav - modified today
Given that 3 of the 4 sav files are old are these still needed? Could they be deleted to save disk space or are they still used even though the date is not updated?