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Aspirant

Oct 24, 2019

Solved

cannot free up storage on nas box

help when i delete files my remaining storage does not change(increase)

albback
Oct 31, 2019
firmware 6.10.2 the latest one, OMG thank you stephen,its working im doing a balance at the moment have retreive nearly 1.5 TB so im more than happy,i will change from never to custom 3 month after i delete one more snapshot which will leave me the latest one.can i back up to a external hard drive.i cannot thank you enough for you help.i will look into what you are recommending and no doubt you will be helping me again.
Regards
Alan

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JohnCM_S
NETGEAR Employee Retired
Oct 30, 2019
Hi albback,

Do you have the snapshots enabled?

You can try running a volume balance. You can find that option under System > Volumes then click the gear icon on your volume then select Balance.

Regards,
- albback
  Aspirant
  Oct 31, 2019
  balance did not make and diffrence i not to sure about how to get to snapshot but it looks enabled
- albback
  Aspirant
  Oct 31, 2019
  snapshot is set to daily.i only have 160GB out of 3 TB,can you help ,it looks like i snapshots from Jan2014 to 31 Oct 2019
  - albback
    Aspirant
    Oct 31, 2019
    Hi John.Thank you for your help
    cheers
    Al

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