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Balancing Volumes makes ReadyNAS unresponsive
I've read through multiple discussions from users stating Balancing is causing problems with their ReadyNAS units. Mainly two issues... 1. Balancing can take DAYS to run. As an example one of our un...
In an effort to get a successful balancing run we ran balancing from 8AM-5PM every day last week. To our surprise after 45 hours of running this past weekend it completed successfully! We have it scheduled to run weekly now so the next big test will be this coming weekend; hopefully it'll complete again.
John_Salfer wrote:
In an effort to get a successful balancing run we ran balancing from 8AM-5PM every day last week. To our surprise after 45 hours of running this past weekend it completed successfully! We have it scheduled to run weekly now so the next big test will be this coming weekend; hopefully it'll complete again.
Let us know either way.
If backups happen off-shift you might find it works better to schedule daily runs (assuming there would be less churn).
Good news. Hours of working this issue to get a balance to finish has paid off. The balancing two weeks ago took around 12 hours and last weekend took under 2. We'll continue to run them weekly in hopes that we don't see this issue come up again.
We also hope Netgear does something so other users don't have to go through what we had to endure. Allowing one process to completely consume the ReadyNAS makes for a very poor design.
Thanks for everyones input.
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