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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Disclosure: this is my own article (Charles Hartmann, Homelab the Right Way). Written with AI help and edited by me; the setup described is mine.
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.
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.