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Bitlooker and v9 improvements

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I've seen my repository space usage drop from 6TB for everything backed up, down to 3.36 TB after V9...

Does bitlooker also ignore free space on VMs? I do have a few servers that have literally a TB or more of free space. I'm just wondering how it all got down to this small. I love it though!
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Re: Bitlooker and v9 improvements

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Yes, BitLooker allows to skip dirty data blocks that are marked as deleted on the VM guest OS.
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So blocks that have never been used and are just free space, are considered "marked as deleted"?
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Re: Bitlooker and v9 improvements

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Blocks that have never been used contain zeroes and were skipped by default even in previous Veeam B&R versions. Blocks that contain deleted data (while seen as free space from the guest OS) are skipped by BitLooker.
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