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CloudPools 2.0 provides a new sparse file format to improve handling of empty blocks. With this improvement, sparse zeros are not in CloudPools operations, which reduces network utilization and saves space on the cloud target.
Note: No cloud objects are written when archiving full sparse files (fully empty blocks).