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Deleting large folders
Hi, I have had replicate running since i started using the Readynas in 2016. It created daily backups of my production server. I am starting to run out of space and need to remove some of th...
Hi,
Snapshots are off.
I have tried using both the web gui and accessing via windows. The behavior is the same in both cases.
I have not tried SSH as SSH acess is not currently "on".
I think even with SSH i would have to go day by day vs. selecting a months worth of backups to remove at a time. can turn on SSH access and try removing each directory one by one that way to see if its any faster.
Thx.
ialander wrote:
I think even with SSH i would have to go day by day vs. selecting a months worth of backups to remove at a time. can turn on SSH access and try removing each directory one by one that way to see if its any faster.
Why are you thinking that?
Another option is to copy everything you want to keep into a new share and then delete the old one. Using cp -p -r --reflink will do the copy efficiently without taking more space (though you need to turn on snapshots in both shares temporarily to use --reflink).
Have you considered moving to ReadyDR since Replicate is EOL? ReadyDR will back up whatever snapshots you have on the source. So if you use custom snapshots, you can set up whatever retention you want. Once you've run ReadyDR for long enough that you have sufficient backup history with it, then you can delete the entire Replicate share.
I never used Replicate, so don't know how efficient it was. But DR uses snapshots and is very efficient in not duplicating any content between backup versions.
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