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Ready NAS 4220 terminal command to unset 'allow snapshot access' check box
I have a readynas 4220 acting as a fileserver, joined to a AD. Running Firmware 6.2.4 There is also a on-site file indexer running 24/7. It indexes 4 of the shares. I have a junior administrator...
Thanks for looking into that for me.
I thought there might be a terminal command for that.
Garet
I am puzzled on the use case. You want this cron job in order to guard against a mistake that might be made by a NAS administrator?
There is no specific terminal command to turn off the snapshot access on a share since snapshot access, being enabled through the UI, is translated through the middleware.
My recommendation is to teach the junior administrator best practice is to return the system back to how it was once making the change. Maybe they can confirm snapshot access is turned off when closing a ticket.
Thanks for looking into that for me.
I thought there might be a terminal command for that.
Garet
kohdee wrote:
My recommendation is to teach the junior administrator best practice is to return the system back to how it was once making the change. Maybe they can confirm snapshot access is turned off when closing a ticket.
I agree.
Though there used to be a way to access the snapshots from the full Data volume (even with access turned off). That seems to have disappeared. It was handy sometimes (and perhaps this use case is one example).
So maybe post a suggestion in the "ideas for storage" section, saying there should be a way for admins to directly access the snapshot folders even if the setting isn't checked.
ReadyNAS doesn't support the ability to snapshot the whole data volume from front-end controls, so that shouldn't have been possible to snapshot or view an existing snapshot. I wouldn't recommend taking a whole volume snapshot because of how easy it would be to fill up that volume with changes, then trying to recover from it could be a nightmare.
kohdee wrote:
ReadyNAS doesn't support the ability to snapshot the whole data volume from front-end controls, so that shouldn't have been possible to snapshot or view an existing snapshot. I wouldn't recommend taking a whole volume snapshot because of how easy it would be to fill up that volume with changes, then trying to recover from it could be a nightmare.
I was not suggesting a whole volume snapshot.
Only that there should be a way for an admin to browse share snapshots easily even if "access snapshots" is turned off, and maybe even delete specific files or folders in a snapshot..
I was thinking doing that from \\nas\data only because I have a vague recollection that I was able to see the snapshots in a hidden folder there with some past release. But I think there could be other ways. For instance, create an override setting specifically for the admin account ("force snapshot access" or some such).
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