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Bombenbodo
Feb 12, 2018Aspirant
Can't create snapshots anymore after successful disk expansions -> "Failed to create snapshot"
Hi all, I recently expanded our Raid 6 setup from 4x3TB to 4x10TB which worked as expected. Snapshots were pruned before due to full disks - now after the expansions I was surprised to see that s...
- Feb 12, 2018
wrote:
creating test share & manual snapshot works
That suggests that if a better solution doesn't emerge, that a brute-force approach should work.
- create a temp share (matching the access settings)
- copy the files into it (perhaps with a backup job)
- delete the original share
- rename the temporary share to match the original
Have you checked to see if this issue affects all your shares, or if it only affects some of them?
StephenB
Feb 12, 2018Guru - Experienced User
What firmware are you running?
Can you try creating a test share, and see if snapshots work correctly on it?
Bombenbodo
Feb 12, 2018Aspirant
creating test share & manual snapshot works
- BombenbodoFeb 12, 2018Aspirant
firmware 6.9.2
- StephenBFeb 12, 2018Guru - Experienced User
wrote:
creating test share & manual snapshot works
That suggests that if a better solution doesn't emerge, that a brute-force approach should work.
- create a temp share (matching the access settings)
- copy the files into it (perhaps with a backup job)
- delete the original share
- rename the temporary share to match the original
Have you checked to see if this issue affects all your shares, or if it only affects some of them?
- BombenbodoFeb 12, 2018Aspirant
yeah it effects all existing shares - if there is no better solution I will go for the brute force suggestion - thanks for the help!
- BombenbodoFeb 12, 2018Aspirant
after moving all files into antother share I am not able to delete the old share - I tried resetting permissions etc. but still no success - the error messages are the same in the logs:
Feb 12 16:51:21 io snapperd[3336]: THROW: stat on info directory failed Feb 12 16:51:21 io snapperd[3336]: reading failed
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