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Reputation: 832

Does snapshot size is less than actual disk size even disk is full in google cloud?

I have one disk with a size of 400GB which is full of data. when I take a snapshot of that disk on GCP, it shows only 280GB. is it normal?

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Upvotes: 0

Views: 1307

Answers (1)

David C
David C

Reputation: 403

Yes, it is normal, from documentation: Snapshots are incremental and automatically compressed, so you can create regular snapshots on a persistent disk faster and at a much lower cost than if you regularly created a full image of the disk..

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You can test the snapshot, create a VM based on it and the VM must be working exactly as the one from which you create the snapshot.

Upvotes: 4

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