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Delete old Proxmox VMs without regret (chartmann1590.github.io)
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The backup, verify, then destroy-with-purge routine for clearing out stopped guests safely, including the linked-clone check that stops you deleting something a running VM depends on.

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[–] 2 points 1 week ago (1 child)

Idk, that seems unnecessarily complicated versus just doing it via the UI, which already catches most of the things like orphaned disks etc. Integrity checking a freshly created backup isn't doing much in terms of safety. Protection against pruning is unnecessary when pruning keeps the last copies.

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  • [–] [S] 2 points 1 week ago*

    Fair points. The UI does catch orphaned disks, and with sensible prune settings the newest copies stay anyway. The written routine mostly helps when you're clearing out a lot of old guests at once and want a checklist to follow.

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