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OK. &nbsp;So a related question, can I turn the server off for a little while everyday and let the dif catch up a bit or does it start over every time? &nbsp;It looks like it picks up where it leaves off, but I'm only judging by file sizes so it's not definitive.
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OK.  So a related question, can I turn the server off for a little while everyday and let the dif catch up a bit or does it start over every time?  It looks like it picks up where it leaves off, but I'm only judging by file sizes so it's not definitive.

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I don't think that'll work.
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Hello,<br />
I have a Hyper-V 2012 server and a guest with a giant AVHDX (300GB). &nbsp;I deleted the snapshots when I discovered them and it started to do a live merge. &nbsp;However, at the time I didn't think I had the disk space to complete it so I cancelled the merge. &nbsp;Now that I've cleared up space, it looks like the only way to merge the diffs is to turn off the guest and wait. &nbsp;This guest can't take the kind of downtime a 300GB merge would require and when I turn the guest back on, it seems to cancel the merge. &nbsp;Is there a way to manually kick off a live merge again?<br />
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Thank you in advanced.
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Hello,
I have a Hyper-V 2012 server and a guest with a giant AVHDX (300GB).  I deleted the snapshots when I discovered them and it started to do a live merge.  However, at the time I didn't think I had the disk space to complete it so I cancelled the merge.  Now that I've cleared up space, it looks like the only way to merge the diffs is to turn off the guest and wait.  This guest can't take the kind of downtime a 300GB merge would require and when I turn the guest back on, it seems to cancel the merge.  Is there a way to manually kick off a live merge again?

Thank you in advanced.

Hyper-V 2012 manual live merging?

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Windows Server 2012 is the server version of Windows 8 and the successor to Windows Server 2008 R2. Windows Server 2012 is the first version of Windows Server to have no support for Itanium-based computers since Windows NT 4.0. Windows Server 2012, now in its second release (Windows Server 2012 Release 2) includes Foundation, Essentials, Standard and Datacenter, and does not support IA-32 or IA-64 processors.

Windows Server 2012

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