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Turned off Snapshot feature and lost all old Snapshots.
We have a 526X and up until yesterday we had the snapshot feature enabled for a daily snapshot. It had been working without issue, but yesterday someone turned off the feature and now it seems that a...
Thank you for the reply. The problem is when I go to the Recover Files section of the drive no snapshots show as available as you can see below.
However, below you can also see the NAS is showing 3.14 GB of space being used by snapshots. I am trying to figure out if that 3.14 GB is actually some of my snapshots but I am unable to see them for some reason. I am hoping that is the case, but at this point I assume it is a lost cause.
It is possible to troubleshoot further, but that would require use of ssh.
Even then, I think all you could do is make sure they are fully deleted - I don't know of anyway to get the, back into the web ui.
What will happen with old snapshots if James turned snapshots simply ON again?
HelGoLAN wrote:
What will happen with old snapshots if James turned snapshots simply ON again?
ON and OFF are about the snapshot schedule. Turning that control OFF (or ON) doesn't affect any snapshots that have been already made.
Than James should turn ON that control and restore the lost file as he normaly does.
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