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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...
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?
creating test share & manual snapshot works
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?
yeah it effects all existing shares - if there is no better solution I will go for the brute force suggestion - thanks for the help!
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
Likely you will need Netgear's help on this. They might offer to take a look at your system here, but you might need to use paid support.
Alternatively start over (either factory default, or destroy/recreate the volume) and restore all the data from backup. Painful, but guaranteed.
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