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Balance trashed my NAS Readynas RN104
Help wanted... I have Readynas 104 with 4x3TB Seagate drives. It was 85% full and I decided to delete 0.75TB of data. Available space did not increase so decided to run Balance. The device became...
StephenB,
I have now downloaded the Zip Log - there's a lot! Is there any parts that youo would like me to post, for the benefit of the community?
Phil
I am in your debt, mdgm, as your suggestion to boot in read-only mode has restored access, so thank you very much.
In fact I don't have any space allocated to snapshots and I have never used Balance before so it is not over-used by me. So I remain in the dark as to what I did wrong and why the RN104 became inaccessible.
I am very grateful for you input. Thanks.
Phil
m0n5ter wrote:
In fact I don't have any space allocated to snapshots
With OS-6, you don't allocate space for snapshots.
Do you mean that snapshots are turned off on all the shares (or at least the ones the held the deleted files)?
m0n5ter wrote:
In fact I don't have any space allocated to snapshots and I have never used Balance before so it is not over-used by me. So I remain in the dark as to what I did wrong and why the RN104 became inaccessible.
I think the forced shutdown is what made the volume inaccessible. But there might be more clues in the log zip file.
While many people do over-use balance, it can also be under used. Normally it shouldn't run for over a week, and that suggests to me that it probably should have been run before.
Personally I run it on a 3-month schedule (as I do with the other maintenance functions). Usually it takes about 20 minutes on my RN526x. While it would take longer on an RN104, it's nowhere near 10 days.
Hi StephenB,
I have snapshots turned off on all shares and the Volumes information reports zero in Snapshots, that's what I meant.
I didn't even know that Balance existed before two weeks ago but this particular NAS holds data that rarely gets deleted - it has taken years to build up to 7Tb as now. So I would expect that it wouldn't need Balance very often.
I will consult the logs and post anything of interest.
Many thanks for your contribution and helpful guidance.
Phil
StephenB,
I have now downloaded the Zip Log - there's a lot! Is there any parts that youo would like me to post, for the benefit of the community?
Phil
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