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Balancing takes weeks to complete
My RN204 running 6.05.01 with 3x 4TB and 1 2TB disk was running at about 80+% full between data and snapshots (even though I was only using about 4 TB for my data). I tried to do a balance, and aft...
Running it every day is way more than enough and unnecessary. Once a week at most should be sufficient.
If you never run a balance the filesystem may become quite unbalanced and the first subsequence balance may take a long time especially if the volume is quite full and the space is nearly fully allocated
mdgm wrote:
Running it every day is way more than enough and unnecessary.
Agreed. I run it once a quarter, and it completes pretty quickly (the last one completed in 30 minutes). Perhaps start with once a week, and then try once a month and see if the completion time stays low.
I was doing the balance every month, but I have a lot of change data going to the RN204 (daily backups from my computers using Veeam with a 5 day retention), so in my case, I think the balance needs to be done more.
Hello Lasebait,
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